In a democracy, you can end up with leaders who aren’t any good, but you can get them out again fairly swiftly, and without fighting.

relatively competent and relatively honest

Sometimes unclear bullshit is not merely temporarily unclear, but it is inherently unclear. This is the sort of bullshit that troubles G. A. Cohen. In his (2002) paper “Deeper into Bullshit,” he notes that bullshit does not merely involve seeking to more or less intentionally “mislead with respect to reality.” He argues that sometimes the content being produced has “unclarifiable unclarity” and Cohen wants to say that this is a key component of bullshit. On his view, bullshit statements are “not only obscure but cannot be rendered unobscured.”

I also think that Marco Jacquemet is on point in his “45 as a Bullshit Artist” article, when he suggests that a lot of bullshit can be traced to violating the philosopher Paul Grice’s “Cooperative Principle.” What is that?There are actually two ideas from Grice that we can make use of. One idea is Grice’s distinction between what is literally said and what the person is attempting to communicate. In Grice’s terminology, there is a difference between the proposition expressed and the proposition meant. So, for example, Bill Clinton often literally said something true while attempting to communicate something quite false.

The choices you make the first time you save a file can either complicate or simplify your life tomorrow, next year, and five years from now

You can plant the same seeds as your neighbour,

This freedom of course comes with great responsibility. Publishing imperfect and early ideas requires that we make the status of our notes clear to readers. You should include some indicator of how "done" they are, and how much effort you've invested in them.

Every time we emphasize the connections of an in-group, we also emphasize their lack with outsiders.

This is one of the fundamental building blocks of psychological safety; the ability to openly share your thoughts without fear of censure or repercussion.

Things start to get a bit more challenging for new entrants to the field. It’s true that this language can initially be a blocker. In fact it can be super frustrating when talking to an expert and they say a bunch of things you don’t understand. I’ve been in plenty of situations in my career where somebody has said something in a casual, confident tone and I’ve feigned understanding, only to go and look up the term later.

How could so many people have ordered seeds and then forgotten? And why would so many seed packets start arriving in a sudden surge?

So often, at least in my experience, the final product isn’t produced but discovered. When done right, it feels like the inevitable outcome of where you started.

Our journey toward being completely open is continuous. Yet, in the relatively brief time that we’ve been doing this, we’ve observed three important lessons that we want to share with you:Access stimulates progressWorking openly promotes communication and accountabilitySlowing down first allows us to speed up later

If you work alone, that documentation still happens, but it may be all in your head — never externalised.

It’s draining. No wonder many designers try to avoid it.

Forgetting system thinking always leads to unintended consequences.

When you see a design that looks messy and inconsistent, it’s the result of a lack of system thinking. When your design breaks when it’s stretched beyond the happy path, your incomplete system thinking is to blame.

Expansionism (the belief that a system is always a sub-system of some larger system)Analysis (gaining knowledge of the system by understanding its parts)Synthesis (explaining its role in the larger system of which it is a part)

Consider, for example, the abilities of the emerald wasp

"We're lying to our users," one anguished UX designer told me,

A Type is the highest-level differentiation a component can have.

It's at the right position: the first frame or artboard of all is located at x:0 y:0

Human-Centered Design (HCD) professionals.

It can be a quick conversation on what’s working and not working. Having these conversations throughout the year will improve your performance and help you work more effectively with your team.

Metrics make your work impact real.

But nothing went the way it was supposed to. Our dream of empowering artists hasn’t yet come true, but it has yielded a lot of commercially exploitable hype.

In all of the widgets, Clear Spaces is at or near the center of the stack to allow for quick swiping up and down to get to a different layout. As I go through my day, I may change the app that’s there to give me a visual cue to focus. I might keep my task manager on work rather than my personal when I need to focus up on work things.

My argument has been that the connective power of the web is stronger than its filtering, that even the most partisan blogs are usually only one click away from the political opposites, whereas in the old world of print magazines or face-to-face groups, the opportunity to stumble across an opposing point of view was much rarer.

Not bad for 140 characters

Who is the “author” of this page?

Derrida actually showed up in person for the first class, the silent, white-haired dude in the corner who didn’t introduce himself until the professor arrived.

The most famous is probably Jefferson’s bible, his controversial “remix” of the New Testament

Thanks to our many Hypothesis partners that provided feedback on this feature. We hope to hear more of your ideas as we continue to build out our annotation ecosystem.

If you’re like me, you might be washing the dishes and still be debugging code in your head.

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I always enjoy them when I do.

I live in the world of developers where mechanical keyboards are a unifying community obsession. In a profession marked by immaterial creation, keyboards are one of the few tangible pieces of professional equipment they can fuss over. And fuss they do.

I didn’t know it at the time, but I was building a design system.

It feels like neumorphic designers instantly forget everything they taught before, how they tested their designs for contrast, how they proved to customers, why they make the buttons on the sites as contrasting as possible.

And some VR designs are literally spaces of floating panels.

the commonality of clicks, buttons, and even the icon with three horizontal lines now apparently means “menu” to everyone.

“UX/UI Designer” become a real position, which is the equivalent of an “Architect/Interior Decorator.”

Design is not a synonym for decorative creative decisions.

But somewhere between the Renaissance and today, things changed. While Da Vinci and Michelangelo are household names associated with immense creativity, the Art department is first to be defunded when a school’s budget tightens.

This is the big, counterintuitive advantage of spaced repetition: you get exponential returns for increased effort. On average, every extra minute of effort spent in review provides more and more benefit.