Doxa has been on a hiatus with billing paused for a while now, as I’m currently attached to another project that I’m not yet talking about publicly. I’m going to try to get the updates coming again, b
1. The Portfolio Projects The friend asked the following question on Twitter yesterday: What kind of portfolio projects can a student learning UX independently (neither affiliated with bootcamp or d-s
In the temperate and tropical regions where it appears that hominidsevolved into human beings, the principal food of the species was vegetable.Sixty-five to eighty percent of what human beings ate in
Published in CALL4 · 27 min read · Jul 21, 2020 -- An Example of Quasi-social Interaction and Ecological Interaction Analysis This is not a reading note, but a note on reading itself. Last week, I ord
The canonical idea of science, and by and large its foundational assumption with the possible exception of quantum physics, is that knowledge comes first and foremost from observations that can in som
Catherine Garland, an astrophysicist, started seeing the problem in 2017. She was teaching an engineering course, and her students were using simulation software to model turbines for jet engines. She
Society The Book of Veles Jonas Bendiksen explains the many layers of intrigue that went into the creation of his book about misinformation in the contemporary media landscape. Interview by Jade Chan.
Design Thinking is an increasingly hot topic in the corporate world. Organizations should find this as exciting as designers likely find it humorous. It’s exciting because it brings with it skills and
About the Project Before email, faculty meetings, international colloquia, and professional associations, the world of scholarship relied on its own networks: networks of correspondence that stretched
I’m Luke Craven ; this is another of my weekly explorations of how systems thinking and complexity can be used to drive real, transformative change in the public sector and beyond. The first issue exp
Nick Bostrom www.nickbostrom.com Journal of Medical Ethics , 2005, Vol. 31, No. 5, pp 273-277 [Also available as pdf , mp3 ] [translations: Chinese , Czech , Dutch , Finnish, French , German , Greek H
When the weather is bad I take a bus to work. I’m forever grateful to the person at the bus stop who informed me that you can text New York’s MTA service to find out exactly where the bus is and when
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James Clear is in the creative muck on his next book. It’s currently a 600 page Google Doc—and he’s trying to compress that down into chapters, sections, and sentences. It’s a big task, but he seems m
P erhaps you’ve noticed that ebooks are awful. I hate them, but I don’t know why I hate them. Maybe it’s snobbery. Perhaps, despite my long career in technology and media, I’m a secret Luddite. Maybe
This is a summary of a remarkable 🌳 tree book , which presents a theory for and methods to accelerate expertise in real-world contexts. This summary is not comprehensive; it only covers some of the ac
Climate Change A new way of understanding climate change and other phenomena. Essay Jan. 19, 2015 From the print edition Like Email Print Subscribe Donate Now "Light Bulbs" depicts 320,000 light bulbs
This article is one of two Distill publications about graph neural networks. Take a look at Understanding Convolutions on Graphs to understand how convolutions over images generalize naturally to conv
There’s this trap people fall into when writing, especially for a place like LessWrong where the bar for epistemic rigor is pretty high. They have a good idea, or an interesting belief, or a cool mode
quantum information theory The New Thermodynamic Understanding of Clocks August 31, 2021 Studies of the simplest possible clocks have revealed their fundamental limitations — as well as insights into
I’m Luke Craven ; this is another of my weekly explorations of how systems thinking and complexity can be used to drive real, transformative change in the public sector and beyond. The first issue exp
In 2007 a new documentary called The Pixar Story screened at the Mill Valley Film Festival. It covered the wild antics of the studio’s founders as they crafted a new kind of movie—a fully computer-ani
We are opening up our platform and inviting all builders to create the first plugins and widgets for FigJam . Check out our documentation to start building new plugins or republishing your existing Fi
This past year, I’ve helped a few companies looking for design executives (“Head of Product Design,” “Chief Design Officer,” someone reporting into the C-suite, and may be in the C-suite) by developin
Are you someone who enjoys the unsolicited opinions of strangers and acquaintances? If so, I can’t recommend cancer highly enough. You won’t even have the first pathology report in your hands before t
This post builds on the Emerging Shape of Design Orgs . As design organizations scale, I’ve worked with a number of design leaders who struggle with all that’s expected of them. Let’s look at the “HR
I’ve come to be somewhat known as a “math guy” in creative coding. It’s one of my impostor syndrome items because I’m really not any kind of expert in the field. I took Algebra and some Precalculus in
Toward a Critical Technical Practice Philip E. Agre Department of Information Studies University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, California 90095-1520 pagre@ucla.edu http://polaris.gseis.ucla.
(Net-native storytelling and the tactics of sharing power with an audience. Written in 2006, but still relevant, I think…) The Beast At the beginning of 2001, visionary genius and all-around nice guy
IT’S TIME TO BUILD TOGETHER The Fellowship of the Hype House Quick: what do viral TikTok videos and The Lord of the Rings have in common? More than I could have imagined just a few months ago. Source:
Published in Towards Data Science · 5 min read · Jun 26, 2018 -- Understanding AUC - ROC Curve [Image 1] (Image courtesy: My Photoshopped Collection) In Machine Learning, performance measurement is an
In the form of a short failed relationship (for shocked readers, yes , I am following my late wife’s instructions, and no , the kids are not in fact mad about this), I had a fresh contact with somethi
Kathryn Roulston A number of authors who write about qualitative research have talked about “thinking” as it relates to doing qualitative research (Freeman, 2017; Jackson & Mazzei, 2012; Saldaña, 2015
The User Experience of Design Systems On Google’s Material Design and the Templatization of Digital Products This is a transcription of a keynote given at UX Camp Copenhagen in May, 2017. Thanks so mu
David Clark’s new book, Designing an Internet (MIT Press, 2018) is an important new contribution to Internet governance studies. For the past 35 years, Clark been one of the deepest thinkers about the
The internet is one of the greatest open-ended technologies our species has created, up there with language, writing, money, math, markets. How do you design something like an internet? How does it ge
This extract is from Four Internets: Data, Geopolitics, and the Governance of Cyberspace , by Kieron O'Hara & Wendy Hall (published in the United Kingdom by Oxford University Press, August 2021), and
Today I'd like to share a bit of math involving ideas from information theory, algebra, and topology. It's all in a new paper I've recently uploaded to the arXiv, whose abstract you can see on the rig
GCHQ's internal Boiling Frogs research paper on software development and organisational change in the face of disruption #boilingfrogs The pace of disruptive change is increasing, from the rise of clo