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What I’m reading about the news, urbanism, tech & the zeitgeist. Product/UX Designer + Consultant @omyk.co and “non-assimilated citizen” thinking globally 🌐 posting locally in the 📍SF Bay Area, CA
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That’s what hate speech does. Why Twitter had banned it
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I like how the modern idea of a “job” is someone hiring me based on an exacting set of criteria to make sure I have the experience, then letting me use none of it when I get there.
And then on top of it I have to manage myself? Sounds like a good time
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“Evil destroys itself” —Aristotle
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Speaking of synthesis ;) this might be a related topic
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Personally, I like what my California tax dollars pay for
www.chron.com/news/houston...
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Synthesis is what makes a savvy person different than a savant, btw —the ability to put multiple pieces of information together to form new opinions. Why we had to write essays in college (and better high schools). Using AI is cheating yourself there
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Jefferson knew a successfully self-governing republic required educated citizens. It would help to have a #culture where knowing things isn’t considered a sin, or a disability
Being ”savvy” used to be a good thing, rather than earning accusations of being a savant lol. Or worse
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Always wondered why #ux designers were never brought in to help with that kind of thing. Do they think we’re all GEDs with 6-month bootcamp training?
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No good deed goes unpunished under Trump’s #fascism
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… this should probably be linked here, by the way. Would be neat if news organizations on social media linked their own content more often for deeper context. I can help with that if any are hiring :)
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Maybe the deepest realization we can have in a shallow society where we are warned not to overthink things. Rumination (from Rumi) used to be a source of wisdom instead of a diagnosis 😅
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I learned from Deepseek that in Chinese, the word “precision” is translated as jing-mi (精密), which apparently harnesses that drive toward a specific purpose. But a balance is always required, like Aristotle’s golden mean. I am a fan of both lately
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Too much self-actualization perhaps 😄 … all things in good measure
Lately I am a fan of the Taoist principle of shen, qi and jing … heart, mind and drive. Like the yin-yang that balances good and evil and finds value in both, I think people can be made aware of these three things and harness them
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If you can’t buy organic, buying local helps keep money out of exploitive corporatons’ hands and puts more back into the community. City councils should consider divesting from corporate brands and redirecting money to local credit unions and nonprofits instead
foodrevolution.org/blog/why-buy...
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I miss the Wahlburgers in Palo Alto! Burger and tots really hit the spot, and their vegan version was passable
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The trolling is fun, but hopefully he doesn’t overcompensate
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… more seriously though, my poetry professor in college taught us about how poems are meant to capture an image, invoke a mood, and the flow of the words as music transcends meter and rhyme
Modern poetry rhymes less because we learned what poetry is actually for. Not just entertainment or pleasure
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It might feel trite,
But it can be all right
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I am a fan of drinkolipop.com for helping me catch up on that in a tasty, healthy way (not a paid plug, just that good, non-corporate, and local to California)
There are also, of course, fruits, veggies and grains. You know, the boring stuff :)
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My take on AI coding and UIs: it can be helpful to spin up a version 1.0 proof of concept based on existing UI patterns
But for new stuff that no one’s seen before, hire a human. Creativity and strategy is still what we do best—for now :)
hbr.org/2024/12/the-...
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I wouldn’t call it “the real world” so much as an illusion carefully crafted by sensitive, fearful elites. A lot more is possible if you consider that education can be used in “reality”
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Two hours of closure during lunchtime, and closed until an hour after school lets out. The horror
Maybe they can take their kids to one of the nice nearby shops to help keep them open. Tired of seeing the good ones close
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I wasn’t prepared to see so many Americans defend him, either. Especially after a unilateral invasion, and a campaign of territorial expansion not seen since the 1930s
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It was also on the way up, and Elon lied about it being headed downward. People believed him
www.snopes.com/fact-check/u...
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Up to 4 cups a day is safe, from what I’ve read. Santé, cheers!
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It feels a bit trite,
but it can be all right
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It’s already begun
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Is this why Hillary mentioned “the 3 a.m. phone call”? 😀
Good #health tip. They used to call this the #interregnum, and I have made good use of it sometimes to get some productive things done for 30 minutes or so, then go back to sleep