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#design #essay #product #software | <blockquote>A few jobs ago, I was helping someone with a small tech issue, standing over their shoulder at their computer. The screen was unbelievably dark; I’m not exaggerating when I say it looked to be near 0% brightness. For all I knew, this person had some vision sensitivity or just a basic personal preference that […]</blockquote>

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understanding - nabeelqu

#education #essay #intelligence #learning #thinking #understanding

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DESCHOOLING SOCIETY

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3 tribes of programming

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La civilisation du jeu – Véloce

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Ocean Vuong on being generous in your work

#art #essay #inspiration #poetry #writing | <blockquote>Ocean Vuong is an American poet and essayist based in New York City. Even though his most recent book, 2016’s Night Sky with Exit Wounds, was a collection of poems, Vuong is now engaged in the task of writing what he calls “the ghost of a novel.” His work is predicated on the notion that both reading and writing are acts that require generosity and a willingness to explore.</blockquote>

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Own, Apologize, Repair: Coming Back to Integrity

#accountability #communication #emotion #essay #integrity #privilege #sociology | <blockquote>There is a variation on ‘Not All Men.’ It is called ‘I Feel Bad When You Say That.’ My godson Kyle is six. He is fairly emotionally perceptive for his age, as his grownups have been working with him to create an emotionally responsible and self-aware boy who we hope will grow into an emotionally…</blockquote>

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Ten Things I Have Learned - Part of an AIGA Talk in London

#advice #art #essay #filetype:pdf #job #life #people #work | Milton Glaser

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Blessed Are the Meek | Spike Art Daily

#bret_easton_ellis #culture #essay #social #social_media | <blockquote>“Generation Wuss” only wants to be liked, is incapable of dealing with criticism, and takes everything too seriously – this was the gist of a recent piece by Bret Easton Ellis in Vanity Fair. Responding to this no-holds-barred attack on today‘s twenty-somethings, the writer Harry Burke comes to his generation’s defence. </blockquote>

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E.W. Dijkstra Archive: On the cruelty of really teaching computing science (EWD 1036)

#computer_science #dijkstra #education #essay #philosophy #programming #software #teaching

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La nature est un champ de bataille: essai d'écologie politique

#ecology #essay #green #instututional_racism #lang:fr #politics #racism #recycling | <blockquote>À l’automne 1982, les habitants du comté de Warren, dans le nord-est de la Caroline du Nord, se sont mobilisés pendant six semaines contre l’installation d’une décharge de déchets toxiquesnote. Quatre ans plus tôt, en 1978, une entreprise de gestion des déchets industriels avait entreposé illégalement dans la région d’importantes quantités de biphényles polychlorés (BPC), une substance utilisée notamment dans les transformateurs électriques et la peinture. Une fois découvertes, l’Éta...

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