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Baha'i, husband, dad, designerd...
Living in the future, or Hartford, might be the same thing.
VP of Design at PluralSight.
Trying to make everything better for humans and all the other beings we share this existence with. We’re in this together.
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"The well-being of mankind, its peace and security, are unattainable unless and until its unity is firmly established." - Baha'u'llah

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grimalkina, to random
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I have NOT read this paper yet so this is not a Cat endorsement yet but the title and premise is good enough to share 👀

https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(24)00105-0

rvr,
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@gdinwiddie @grimalkina Love this. This bit seems so obvious, and yet…

“necessitates methodological frameworks that incorporate context”

Soooo much of our policy/decision making just completely ignores it.

I came across something else that mentioned interpreting people’s behaviors, decisions, etc. through a fitness-for-purpose lens, rather than a “that’s just the way they are” lens. We are all seeking okay-ness and that takes so many forms.

rvr,
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@gdinwiddie @grimalkina So true. I've been retraining myself, and trying to nudge those around me, to drop phrases like “best practices”, since it's impossible to achieve "best” in so many contexts. Cynefin helped me understand this, and in a lot of our work on complex software/orgs "good practices" are the most we can expect, or even "emerging" practices in many cases.

rvr, to random
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More of this please. She made claims, but then actually looked for herself and admitted she was wrong. https://www.texastribune.org/2024/05/15/texas-granbury-isd-school-board-courtney-gore/

matthewskelton, to random
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Is the main purpose of your organisation actually Exec enrichment or truly customer success?

Because the behaviour of many orgs suggests that Exec enrichment is the real purpose.

🐉💰

rvr,
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@lukadotnet @matthewskelton Isn’t “value for all stakeholders” in direct conflict with “capitalism”? Like, if having a stake in the enterprise is entirely contingent on the good will of the owners (who grow ownership and wealth by simply being owners), then we’ve already lost.

rvr, to random
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Today I had to eliminate roles from my design org. It was rough, and I feel for those whose jobs were taken away. The things capitalism does… 😢

If anyone wants to connect with some talented product designers in need of work, please get in touch.

Tengrain, to random
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Perfect.

No notes.

rvr,
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@Tengrain I know it’s not the pint, but one big note:

STOP CENTERING ALL THE TEXT.

#badtypography #centrismfail

rvr,
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@Tengrain It might be better, actually? I bet it’s more readable.

baldur, to random
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I mentioned this in a reply already:

End users already think iOS Chrome comes with its own rendering engine. Letting Google actually ship it with their own rendering engine is IMHO unlikely to affect adoption because it’s what the users think their getting already.

And defaults matter. Safari is the default.

Google also doesn’t have the reputation caché it did when it first launched Chrome.

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@baldur Do most end users even have a solid idea of what a rendering engine is, as seperate from the browser? I think it matters to end users, but not in a direct, what-they-choose-to-buy way. It matters in driving improvement and innovation. It’s upstream of the icon they tap, but it will have av effect on their experience, whether they know about the technical details or not.

seachanger, to random
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convert 👏🏼 McMansions 👏🏼 to 👏🏼 co-op 👏🏼 condos 👏🏼

rvr,
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@seachanger And not just retired couples! We were talking about just this issue with our son and his wife last night. We all need this! We need community. We need each other.

thomasfuchs, to random
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Hooray, first major unexpected expense this year (dishwasher gave up the ghost)

rvr,
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@thomasfuchs We closed out the year with a new water heater. Just after we left for Spain! Perfecto!

fraying, to random
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What Twitter and Substack are gonna learn the hard way is that when you coddle the fascist assholes on your platform, ultimately fascist assholes are all you have left.

rvr,
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@fraying Intentions don’t matter. Impact does. And we have more than enough to judge the impact.

molly0xfff, to random
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it's impossible for me to be a multimillionaire without robbing a bank, therefore i should be allowed to rob banks

(headline: "‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says")

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/08/ai-tools-chatgpt-copyrighted-material-openai

rvr,
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@molly0xfff It sounds a bit ridiculous, but is exactly how it works. It is necessary to exploit and steal to be a billionaire, maybe even a multimillionaire? It’s interesting the system, and these arguments are really about the ability to be filthy rich, and not really about the value of “AI”.

mralancooper, to random
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When I hear the pronouns "they" and "them" I hear plurals. I really support the idea of non-gendered pronouns for the English language, but they need to convey the notion of a single person, not a group. Has anyone been able to address this?

rvr,
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@kboyd @mralancooper we contain multitudes?

grimalkina, to random
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Since it's reflection and retrospective season, I'm resharing a favorite older blogpost I wrote, during the founding of the Dev Success Lab, about the role I see for applied research in tech, our relationship with our "zombie luggage," and my own personal journey to always love what I do even when it's been very difficult for the wider tech industry to understand it.

https://www.drcathicks.com/post/five-things-i-ve-learned-in-ten-years-of-being-a-social-scientist-in-tech

#measurement #research #careers

rvr,
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@gdinwiddie @grimalkina This has been a huge lesson for me over the years as well. “What we do “is so much more powerful and opens space to connect, rather than dividing us.

rvr, to random
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🔥 🙌 🔥 👊🏽 🔥 🎯 🔥

rvr, to random
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  1. Librarians are badass
  2. Cancel your Basecamp subscription and move to something else
  3. Librarians are totally badass

https://blogs.library.duke.edu/blog/2023/11/30/why-were-dropping-basecamp/

_Davidsmith, to random
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While redesigning the workout control screen...I seem to have accidentally turned my app into a robot. 🤖

rvr,
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@_Davidsmith half dead, half on pause, needs fluid.

StefanThinks, to random
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Must fight the mansplaining urge to tell people that it's not daylight savings that started, it's now standard time.

rvr,
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@RogerBW @StefanThinks Ah, thank you for saving me from being the mansplainer to the mansplainer 🤓

cabel, to random
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Whoever set up the Zazzle merch store for Tri-Met — Portland’s public transportation agency — is doing it right. Behold, this incredible poster from the 1986 debut of our MAX light rail system. https://www.zazzle.com/1986_light_rail_inaugural_celebration_poster-228847005521069208

rvr,
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@cabel @Miniver 😍

RickiTarr, to random
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What is the best piece of advice you ever got?

rvr,
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@RickiTarr Beware those who would give you advice.

sdw, to random
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Remember those ‘leaked color matched iPhone cables’ from earlier this year? I’d bet the event Oct 30 has an iMac 24’ update with M2, USB-C keyboard, mouse and trackpad peripherals.

But there’s also that black cable. My money is on an M2 Pro / Max iMac Pro or Large iMac.

rvr,
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@sdw That is an enormous iMac… 😆

drahardja, (edited ) to ai
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“Prompt engineering” is such a bizarre line of work. You’re trying to convince a machine trained on a huge pile of (hopefully) human-generated text to produce some useful output by guessing what sequence of human-like words you must put in to make it likely that the model will produce coherent, human-like output that is good enough to pass downstream.

You really have no idea how your prompt caused the model to produce its output (yes, you understand its process, but not the actual factors that contribute to its decisions). If the output happens to be good, you still have no idea how far you can push your input before the model returns bad output.

Prompt engineers talk to the model like a human, because that’s the only mental model they have for predicting how it will respond to their inputs. It’s a very poor metaphor for programming, but there is nothing better to reach for.

rvr,
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@drahardja seems like “engineering” is really the wrong term.

Andylongshaw, to random

@matthewskelton I'm sure this is a common question but I can't find anything from a bit of digging so I wondered if you could provide any pointers.

If you have the need for a given specialist capability that is only required every so often in a team, such as content design for example, an area that contains a group of teams will often have someone who provides this skill across the teams.

1/

rvr,
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@matthewskelton @Andylongshaw A thought: if you can evaluate the impact on flow of having it as a shared capability between teams, I’d think there’s a tipping point at which it’d be wiser to pay the cost of lower utilization in order to avoid blocking teams. And then maybe focus on developing cross skills of the content designer so they can contribute in other ways when feasible? Better to have that person on a team with slack, than have whole teams slowed down because of waiting for support.

rvr,
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@matthewskelton @Andylongshaw Love that.

marcoarment, to random
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Netflix has raised prices more frequently in the last few years than I've found a great new show on Netflix.

rvr,
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@marcoarment Facts.

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