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• April 24, 2015

  My membership in ‘The Cult of Work’

  

  This doodle I drew last year during finals week. I have always had a problem with overworking. I said one of my goals was to improve my work-life balance, but I’ve haven’t said much more because I think it sounds like a humblebrag. At CMU, the stress culture is expected and understood. Everyone doesn’t sleep and everyone will tell you about it. It’s been normalized.

  But I happened to read this great Medium article today, “The Cult of Work You Never Meant to Join” (Jason Lengstorf) about the creeping overwork culture of a lot of tech companies.

  The insidious thing about the Overkill Cult is that it masquerades as all the things we like most about ourselves: dedication, ambition, follow-through, responsibility.

   

  It tells us to push harder, stay later, sleep when we’re dead. It tells us we’re never going to get ahead if we don’t show up first and go home last.

   

  Cleverly, wickedly, the Overkill Cult persuades us to hang ourselves with our own strengths.

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• April 20, 2015

  Seeing with your tongue

  Someone submitted this to my thesis project and I just thought it was the neatest thing! Since seeing is just a sensation created by the brain, some researchers have found a way to recreate the sensation using stimulus from the tongue! Check it out!

  

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• April 18, 2015

  What I know now // 024

  

  Syrian girl mistakes camera for gun in heartbreaking photo. And your heart broke too.

  

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• March 16, 2015

  “Chasing Ice” video

  

  I happened upon this video yesterday out of glacier curiosity and thought it was beautiful, but a little abstract. It’s the largest glacial calving event ever captured, but it’s a hard to really understand the scale when watching the video. But in the last part, they cut to a a presentation about it and apparently it’s the size of Manhattan!* —Just breaking off and rolling into the sea.

  You know, glaciers calving is a natural event so I was a little skeptical that this was a cause for alarm. But the presentation also explained the unprecedented rate that the ice is disappearing: it’s melted more in the last 10 years than it has in the previous 100 years!

  

  I would love to see the complete documentary (also called ‘Chasing Ice’) as well, I’ve heard it’s very good. One of my goals is to visit Glacier National Park before it melts…

   

  *The size of Manhattan…but taller

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• March 15, 2015

  What I know now // 023

  The woe’s of having modernist parents (via Co.Design).

  

  The Handwriting Of 10 Famous Typographers. Because you always wanted to know.

  

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• March 10, 2015

  Time well spent

  

  My stupid xfinity internet has been out all week so I didn’t get to post this on time. But I’m my grad studio now so I can post this lovely video about interaction design. I really loved the message of thinking deeply about why we’re designing and what we want to get out of it. I don’t like the idea of people always striving to do things faster and easier and that being the ultimate virtue of a product. If everything is easier or automated, what do we really want to do with our time? How is your ideal free time spent? If it’s laying around then I’m not really that impressed with the prospect. I know from winter breaks of the past that relaxing isn’t as enjoyable when you do it all day….

  Sorry that was a weird rant. My point is that I like how this is striving for a more positive future.

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• March 7, 2015

  My 5 favorite talks from Interaction15

  Didn’t get to go to Interaction15?

  Wouldn’t even if you didn’t know about it because you’re not an interaction designer?

  Never fear! here are my favorite talks in a nutshell (and why). I will preface with telling you that there were usually three talks going at a time and so I certainly didn’t attended all of them, but I still really liked the ones I ended up at. They’re each about an hour long.

  Mike Monteiro: Keynote from Interaction Design Association on Vimeo.

  This is a great talk for any creative to learn how to talk about themselves and Monteiro is a super engaging lecturer. He’s talking about how important it is to be able to see your work with conviction and why you need to. Something that a lot of people working in creative industries struggle with.

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• February 20, 2015

  5: books James Victore recommends

  

  Pretty diverse set, no? I want to give couple of them try. But he’s right about me not wanting to read Ralph’s again. I really agree that it’s our immersion in the world that helps make us diverse and strong designers.

  James Victore, for those of you new to the scene, is a graphic designer I admire. I’ve written about him a couple of times.

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• February 15, 2015

  What I know now // 022

  

  Tourist vs local photographs (via Good) around the world.

  Well, I know a whole lot more since going to Interaction15 last week, but I’ll stick primarily to the articles I’ve read in the last month.

  

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• February 2, 2015

  ‘The mystery of the missing martins’ video

  I saw and loved this and I think if you see it, you’d love it too.

  

  It’s all of the things that I like together: animals, science facts, and silliness in a well-designed way.

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