designer, researcher, aspiring raconteur @ Google
San Fran, CA
Joined March 2007
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@EvanZhao6 Hey Evan, I'm a friend of Richard Morgan(!). His phone broke in Tokyo but he's still on for your interview on Thursday, though it might be a bit delayed that day. In the meantime, he was wondering if you could pass on your cell #. Cheers!
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Existentialism:
~There is not a meaning to life. Instead, we're all in charge of figuring out what the meaning of our own life is.*
*This figuring out never ends.
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A sticker company is putting together a 8 - 15 person AI team 🤯😳😆? Seems obvious but also seems like a signal of something 👀
tldr.tech/jobs/director-of-a…
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"[Bullshitters] don’t care whether something is true or false. They care only about rhetorical power"
This captures so much of the dangers of this tech. If we're optimizing for engagement, we're optimizing for persuasiveness and not truth...
nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…
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@tedgioia liked your bit on The State of the Culture 👌. Looking into the report behind the "86% of young people want to be influencers", it looks like the article that references this number is misleading, more like 86% would post sponsored content.
cbsnews.com/news/social-medi…
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Getting an MBA is like getting a map of the world, but then realizing that the map only shows the roads and buildings and not the earth and water that sits underneath.
#mba #bschool #disenchantment
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Can product research move from giving underserved users voice to giving underserved users ownership of the product? The first is about shared empathy, the second is about shared power.
But maybe that's outside the scope of product research.
#designresearch #productdesign
"There are strong signs that people are resisting the atomization of everything. It’s suited capitalism to have us all as separate as possible because then we have to all buy things individually."
nyti.ms/3Ty6x3U
Why are private lotteries illegal in so many states that run lotteries? Is it because states know they're predatory? What better argument am I missing?
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"Are the workers being paid less than minimum wage because these are now tipped jobs?"
+100, cashless + tip reco's feel like they're giving tipping culture an unwanted new shot at life.
The Cost of Going Cashless nyti.ms/3tvTZPC
Goldbelly? Blackjet? The model of so many end-user startups is giving the 10% access to what the 1% has.
@CityofDurhamNC trying to submit a request to the city and got directed to Durham One Call. Filled out an online request to try and make it as efficient as possible and then got this response, which doesn't make sense, and then a notice that my issue had been closed. What's up?
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Today while looking at my freshly reorganized kitchen, I realized I had put my pot gummies in my medicine cabinet. Yes, 20-year-old Saj, this is who we are now.
@RDUAirport why your security so quick but your baggage claim so sloooooow? Its like you cant wait for me to leave and never want me to come back 😂😭.
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There's no reason a website shouldn't be able to reduce your image size anymore, right? Especially for docs, etc. Shouldn't this error just be obsolete? What am I missing?
@Cnacordaart Hey Christian! I'm signed up for your CGMA figure drawing class startin 4/19 but I have a super busy week of travel during the first week of class :( . Any chance you could send me some of the first week's homework/content so that I could get a head start on it? 🙏
Lately I've had a hard time imagining doing work that's actually good for the world. To unblock my brain I'm going to start a running list of work that seems like good work and why it seems like good work.
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This seems like good work. Namely it seems to be investigating a hypothesis about how something powerful might be doing something unethical BUT it's also very forthcoming in the limitations of its approach and its conclusions.
nrk.no/osloogviken/xl/tiktok…
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