Burn your toast
Erik Kroes - Accessibility Consultantby Erik Kroes16 Oct 2023
Burn your toast Posted on There's a simple question I ask myself whenever I consider the usage of a toast-component. What is a toast?
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The Gradientby Jessica Dai7 Oct 2023
This essay first appeared in Reboot. Credulous, breathless coverage of “AI existential risk” (abbreviated “x-risk”) has reached the mainstream.
Why I Let My Kids Go Into Debt - Frugalwoods
Frugalwoodsby Liz Frugalwoods18 Sept 2023
Last weekend was ye olde county fair here in Vermont and, of course, we were on the scene to cuddle cows (if you’re Kidwoods) and look askance at cows (if you’re Littlewoods).
Reader Case Study: Ex-Pats in Hanoi, Vietnam - Frugalwoods
Frugalwoodsby Liz Frugalwoods24 Jul 2023
Laura and her husband Ethan are from Philadelphia, PA, but have been living in Hanoi, Vietnam for the past two years.
A Cartographer's Lament: The Taj Mahal Story
ARKives25 Jun 2023
A Cartographer's Lament: The Taj Mahal Story Table of contents: This article is about the vandalism on map License: This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0...
Humility: An Essential Value
A List Apartby by Justin Dauer22 Jun 2023
Humility, a designer’s essential value—that has a nice ring to it. What about humility, an office manager’s essential value? Or a dentist’s? Or a librarian’s? They all sound great.
The myth of the lightbulb moment: How to actually come up with ideas • Slack Design
Slack Designby lcarmen230 Mar 2023
A huge international campaign. A compelling headline on a city billboard. A viral video. They all have one thing in common: they started with an idea.
Thoughts on "Bullshit jobs" by David Graeben - Waldeinsamkeit
Waldeinsamkeitby Unknown14 Dec 2022
"Bullshit jobs" is a book from David Graeben: I'll drop here some quick notes about it before I forget them for good.
Designers, (Re)define Success First
A List Apartby by Lennart Overkamp12 May 2022
About two and a half years ago, I introduced the idea of daily ethical design. It was born out of my frustration with the many obstacles to achieving design that’s usable and equitable; protects...
Cocktail party ideas
Dan Luu2 Feb 2022
You don't have to be at a party to see this phenomenon in action, but there's a curious thing I regularly see at parties in social circles where people value intelligence and cleverness without...
Some reasons to work on productivity and velocity
Dan Luu15 Oct 2021
A common topic of discussion among my close friends is where the bottlenecks are in our productivity and how we can execute more quickly.
A closer look: "A family evacuated from Afghanistan arrives at Dulles"
Erik Kroes - Accessibility Consultantby Erik Kroes29 Aug 2021
A closer look: "A family evacuated from Afghanistan arrives at Dulles" Posted on I shared an image of Afghan refugees too haphazardly. Let's have a second look.
Sustainable Web Design, An Excerpt
A List Apartby by Tom Greenwood5 Aug 2021
In the 1950s, many in the elite running community had begun to believe it wasn’t possible to run a mile in less than four minutes.
Maps Are Always Wrong
ARKives13 Jun 2021
Maps Are Always Wrong Table of contents: In this article I have tried to explain the concepts of maps and map projections with minimum technicalities even for a non technical reader to understand.
When like MINDED people thought SPATIALLY
ARKives14 May 2021
When like MINDED people thought SPATIALLY Table of contents: This is a non tech writting. This article was published first in Geominds blog This is the story of Geominds.
THE TRUTH ABOUT MAURA | Kirkus Reviews
Kirkus Reviewsby Finalists About the Kirkus Prize22 Feb 2021
by Melinda Di Lorenzo ‧ RELEASE DATE: Aug. 18, 2026 A thoughtful, skillfully presented treatment of a timely topic. A teen deals with the fallout when her abortion becomes public knowledge.
The Strength of Being Misunderstood
Sam Altmanby Sam Altman1 Dec 2020
A founder recently asked me how to stop caring what other people think. I didn’t have an answer, and after reflecting on it more, I think it's the wrong question.
5 Things Keeping You From a Life of Financial Independence
Wise Breadby Toni Husbands10 Oct 2020
Financial independence can mean different things to everyone. A 2013 survey from Capital One 360 found that 44 percent of American adults feel that financial independence means not having any debt...
Thread: Differentiable Self-organizing Systems
Distillby Alexander Mordvintsev; Ettore Randazzo; Eyvind Niklasson; Michael Levin; Sam Greydanus27 Aug 2020
How can we construct robust, general-purpose self-organising systems? Self-organisation is omnipresent on all scales of biological life.
SMASHED POTATOES — Sprouted Kitchen
Sprouted Kitchenby Sara Forte6 Jul 2020
There is more to say on this subject, and this will be clunky and too much and not enough but I need to start somewhere, even just for me.