If you have a keyboard, you have the chance to speak to some people – the people who want to hear from you. It is possible, when the stars align, for that group to be a billion, or it might only be ten, but there is a number of people that you can engage with and if you change the culture then you change everything.
Seth Godin
My argument for more than twenty years has been that we are each responsible for the culture where we are living, because we each have the ability to do something about it.
Offscreen Magazine
Ci sono 6 articoli con tag Offscreen Magazine (questa è la pagina 1 di 1).
Sulla fiducia
… as technology kept on evolving, trust continued to be redistributed again and again through networks, systems and platforms, leading to our era of distributed trust, where we have new and different forms of trusting people – complete strangers – to a scale never seen before.
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We’re already asking how our old institutions can involve more people, and how distributed forms… might provide the kind of safety nets that used to be the role the had.
Rachel Botsman, intervistata su Offscreen Magazine nº23
sull’educazione
Real learning comes through doing things, failing, connecting, exploring, discovering.
That is at the heart of what it means to be a human, and that’s how we learn to ride a bike, it’s how we learn to walk, it’s how we learn to talk, it’s how we learn to cook.
I do think humanity and culture will outlast whatever current constructs we have around the educational-industrial complex. And we need to teach people how to be able to have a thoughtful, spirited conversation in which it’s possible to change your mind. I don’t think we’re teaching people how to do that in a traditional school setting, and we’re paying the price for it.
Seth Godin, Offscreen Magazine nº23
Raccontarsi in modo nuovo
Social media is a vehicle for emotional contagion, and it seems socially irresponsible to use it as a space for therapy. But I don’t believe it should be a fake shiny space of airbrushed inspo.
As I search for a middle ground, it suddenly struck me: what if I tried, in all areas of my life – offline, online, at work, at home, with strangers, with my mum – to be who I am when I’m with my kids? A person who strives to be emotionally honest, yet control her sloppiest impulses? A person who explores what’s happening in the world, yet always tries to suggest that we have the power to change it? A person who, above all, defaults to kind?
Molly Flat, Offscreen Magazine #23
letture suggerite del 16 agosto 2020
- Shift Happens: A tale of three skeumorphs
- CJEU rules US cloud servers don’t comply with GDPR and what this means for web analytics
- Offscreen’s magazine issue 23 Editor’s Note
- The culture of hurry: the value of ‘free’ work time – un notevolissimo articolo di Erin ‘Folletto’ Casali su come la cultura dell’emergenza perenne sia del tutto deleteria per gli ambienti lavorativi;
- 161 ways to practice self-care while working from home – Una raccolta di consigli da parte delle persone che lavorano in Automattic, azienda ‘remota’ per antonomasia, su come affrontare lo stress lavorativo dell’obbligo del lavoro a casa assieme al resto della famiglia, come misura cautelativa anti-COVID;
- Apple, ARM, and What It Means – Russell Graves was invited to iFixIt blog to write again about Apple’s transition to ARM chips after a long analysis on his blog;
Oggi un link extra … perché tra un po’ si tornerà al lavoro e scegliere un nuovo computer per affrontare i prossimi mesi sarà una sfida che in molti dovranno affrontare.
Quando informatica e design aiutano le persone
Unfortunately the progress we have made is not distributed equally. The forces working against strong design are still powerful. Don’t get me wrong – I’m not so naive or arrogant as to believe we should all quit our jobs and relocate to an Ebola-stricken place in West-Africa in order to give a real meaning to our work. And I don’t have any practical advice as to what you should or could do after reading this. All I know is that I discovered what feels like and alternate reality –one in which even the smallest improvement can have an enormous impact on people’s most basic needs. As a designer and a fellow human being, I believe we need to work harder on re-aligning those realities. We need to honour what makes up the nucleus of our discipline: empathy and compassion. Because above all, design is about people.
Francesco Kirkhoff
Con molta lentezza sto proseguendo la lettura del n°13 di Offscreen Magazine.
Mi ha molto colpito l’articolo del tedesco Francesco Kirkhoff, di cui ho riportato una piccola parte. Francesco lavora per eHealth Africa, un’iniziativa umanitaria volta a migliorare alcuni aspetti del dissestato continente africano. Un articolo molto umano, reale, moving … direbbero gli anglofoni.
L’informatica non dovrebbe essere fine a se stessa, ma sempre orientata a risolvere i problemi delle persone (e non a crearne altri).