Simon Joliveau Breney
@simonjb
Simon Joliveau Breney
@simonjb
Joy and Photography
Lorraine O’Grady, Art Is… (Front Troupe), 1983
So here they are, my personal rules for blogging.
The desktop user interface is a mainstay of computing. Bread and butter, if you will. A pointer, icons, windows, menus and buttons, controlled using a keyboard and a mouse. Ingenious simplicity.
For almost half a century now, we haven't really managed to come up with something better, and that's not for lack of trying. This fact seems to annoy a lot
... See moreLearning and meta-learning are intertwined, so the less we know about a subject, the less we know about how that subject is organized. This leads to our first principle: before embarking on any new learning project, try to figure out how other people organize efforts to learn it. What do those people see as the major divisions in skill, knowledge
... See more“There will be only answers,” the writer Marguerite Duras said in 1985 when a TV show asked her to make a prediction about the year 2000. “The demand will be such that there will only be answers. All texts will be answers… about [man’s] body, his corporeal future, his health, his family life, his salary, his leisure. It’s not far from a nightmare.
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