Design Matters (10): Your iPhone Moment
The thing you’re working on is (I hope) very useful, and sure to make a difference if the right people use it. But will they… Read More »Design Matters (10): Your iPhone Moment
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Writing and Reading as Technology (2): Half-baked Beginnings
Writing as Infant Technology … the thing about new technologies… is that it takes several generations for us to decide what they’re good for. They’re… Read More »Writing and Reading as Technology (2): Half-baked Beginnings
Writing and Reading as Technology (1): Transforming Fire; Slow Burn
We often think of writing (and reading) as primarily a matter of culture and education, which obscures its position as one of humanity’s most transformative… Read More »Writing and Reading as Technology (1): Transforming Fire; Slow Burn
Fools’ Money (3): Less Wrong with Words
Words are wise men’s counters, they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of… Read More »Fools’ Money (3): Less Wrong with Words
Fools’ Money (2): Counter Argument
Words are wise men’s counters, they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of… Read More »Fools’ Money (2): Counter Argument
Fools’ Money (1): Big Swinging Dictionary
Words are wise men’s counters, they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of… Read More »Fools’ Money (1): Big Swinging Dictionary
On training, motivation and pleasure
The question is not so much “Can I run a marathon?” as “Will I put in the miles in training?” If you plan to run… Read More »On training, motivation and pleasure
Finding the phrase
It isn’t just the idea that counts, but how you say it and how you show it. The (metaphorical) map is not the territory, but… Read More »Finding the phrase
Utagawa Hiroshige and Jakob Nielsen: Art vs Design
I want to show you, as a little experiment, this piece of art and ask you what this is a picture of. Can you tell… Read More »Utagawa Hiroshige and Jakob Nielsen: Art vs Design
Mrs Crocodile on working for change in a complex system
I had no idea that absolutely everything would be this complicated and take this long.