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Yes! More buttons and dials, please!

Remember that authoritarians have ZERO sense of humor. About anything.

We're about to build a house and we've set this rule: if it can be analog, it should be. If we need some digital automation (e.g. a thermostat), it has to have a way for us to manually override it. No AI/IoT/random data getting sent out to who knows where.

so many of the small indignities of daily life come from us being denied the ability to tell a rich man in a tech company to fuck off. minesweeper has microtransactions. paid services have ads. the opt out says maybe later. the drive thru is a broken chatbot. your car is an ipad. fuck off! fuck off!

we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light

Diolch yn fawr iawn, Nia! (I hope I’m saying this right!) 😊

¡Muchas gracias, Adrián! 😊

Thank you, Corinna! 🥰

10 things I learned about business design (because 44 is too many) I just turned 44. At first, I thought about writing 44 things I’ve learned about business design.

I turned 44 this week. At first, I thought about writing 44 things I’ve learned about business design. Then I realized two things:

-No one wants to read that much.
-I don’t want to write that much.

So here are 10.

www.linkedin.com/pulse/10-thi...

today at the park we saw wild turkeys and some dude behind us was like “bro look at those owls” so what I’m saying is don’t ever let anyone make you feel stupid. you can visually identify a turkey

"Artificial Intelligence will have an impact ten times greater than that of the Industrial Revolution," says somebody whose only knowledge of the Industrial Revolution must come from Artificial Intelligence.

I realized a part of the site was broken just by watching a single user session in Clarity. You know how long it would’ve taken me to spot that in Google Analytics? Forever. I probably never would’ve noticed.

And there are still people who dismiss qualitative research because of sample size.

This takes "I know it when I see it" to a whole different level.

Hello. I'm an autistic person in a film or television drama. I'm a man in my twenties and excel at STEM. Somehow, I managed to get a PhD without understanding basic social rules, and my coworkers find me adorable.

We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.

Do any of these reporters writing about how using the a/c is bad for the environment want to write about AI instead or

Just because it's big doesn't make it strategic.

What I don't get about these policies is why I can't just pay to have the experience I want. With the excuse that everything is "free," they make me put up with whatever. On most apps I'd be willing to pay for a better experience (e.g. no ads), but I'm never the customer, I'm always the product.

Oh, man! What am I gonna do without you two here?

Vintage comic panel showing a blonde man in a dark suit holding a cigar, sitting in an office and looking out the window. Speech bubble reads: "I hate every last one of them! And I'm going to turn this hate into cash!"

Me, every morning, when I open LinkedIn:

(Found it on Pinterest, don't know the author, sorry)

In Argentina we say the same thing! So weird! 😊

In Argentina we say "Do you live in a tent?" (¿Vivís en carpa, vos?).

Photo of the screen of the ticket booth for the metro station. It displays the choice between “add value” or “add time”

Existential crisis at the metro station

I ask them how they measure success (in general, not just the org's official metrics) and how they evaluate their own performance. That usually gives me a better sense of their actual mental model and priorities beyond what their job description says.

Thank you! Will definitely check it out.

Any good books and/or courses on business design? Looking to bridge the gap between my MBA and design background with a focus on real business outcomes (i.e. making money), not just the typical design thinking/post-its on walls kind of content. Thanks!

The real surprise came after the experiment. Fred Lambert, who writes for the blog Electrek, pointed out the same autopilot disengagement that the NHTSA had documented. “Autopilot appears to automatically disengage a fraction of a second before the impact as the crash becomes inevitable,” Lambert noted.

In a horrifying article about the dangers of Teslas, one point stands out: Teslas automatically disengage self-driving mode <1 second before an imminent crash--not enough time for the driver to react, but enough for Tesla to deny responsibility for fatal crashes, since self-driving "wasn't engaged."

"why does restaurant food taste better than food cooked at home"

The cook does not care if you live or die and uses salt and butter accordingly

In Argentina it’s winter, so here’s our expression for when it’s really cold: "Está fresco pa' chomba," which means "It’s a bit too chilly to be out in just a polo shirt."