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chrismarmo.bsky.social
Design Researcher / Co-founder of PaperGiant.net / Adjunct Professor of Design @ Monash University.
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Weekend reading arrived just in time

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Got 450 applicants in 3 weeks for two roles I had advertised. Things are tight out there folks. Two years ago we’d be lucky to get a quarter of that.

submitted 90 days ago • 2 comments

It’s always a good day when there’s a new Rival Consoles release: music.apple.com/au/album/if-...

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

the parliament has passed a law forcing calculator manufacturers to implement measures to stop kids typing in 58008 and turning it upside down. Keeping our kids safe.

submitted 94 days ago • 14 comments

Read about some of the work @ianfpollock.bsky.social accomplished during our time as colleagues at Paper Giant. Great to have a scholarly take on the boiler room of consulting outputs.

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

Attending the Vic Premier's Design Awards last night, and as always was blown away by the quality of the work we produce here. Highlight was VolDrive, a kinetic energy harvester powering internet of things devices (and saving tonnes of batteries): premiersdesignawards.vic.gov.au/entries/2024...

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

Good news, but also says “rebounding agriculture and transport emissions, in particular, are cancelling out reductions in the power sector”

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve had a bit of time to tinker with coding again recently (I was a webdev circa 2004), and my most common LLM chat is like: “hey, so tell me what’s happened with RSS in the last 10 years!” and I am absolutely giddy with delight around how useful these things are.

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

We just got an air fryer and oh boy, I’m on the bandwagon.

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

This is such ridiculous policy.

submitted 108 days ago • 1 comment

Having seen appalling catalogue of harms against teens outlined in huge cases against Meta for our #4Corners story, Disconnected (including heartbreaking story of Colorado teen, Anna Schott) not surprised Australia proposing tough Digital Duty of Care law #socialmedia amp.abc.net.au/article/1045...

submitted 109 days ago • 18 comments

I’m late to this platform, but it already feels nicer (less algorithm’d) than the other places. Quite nice having a blank slate social graph too. Hello 👋

submitted 112 days ago • 2 comments