Month: February 2019
February 24, 2019
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How Criticisms of Roma Have Revealed American Biases
“Yalitza Aparicio in Roma (courtesy Netflix) The first time I watched Roma was in a movie theater with my parents. Unlike them, I wasn’t yet around in the 1970s…”
February 18, 2019
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The Sexualized Messages Dress Codes are Sending to Students
“Nashoba Regional MA Also, student dress that is obscene or offensive, and/or disruptive to the learning environment will not be permitted. Norwood High MA Since…”
February 17, 2019
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Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation (Ken Liu (translator), Anthology, 2016)
SF anthologies are of course hit and miss but I liked a lot of this. The collection includes some commentary on the writers and stories which helps. Chinese SF is great because you get a double dose of oddness – the SF and the culture shock of non-western writing.
February 14, 2019
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Why it’s so hard to fix AI bias
“Why it’s so hard to fix AI bias We’ve come to understand how AI bias can impact people’s lives. Today we’re covering the mechanics of how it arises in the first…”
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Work-Life Balance
I feel individuals have a limited amount of energy to give in a day. That varies by person, by stage in life, your overall mood and mental health, plus how engaged you feel with the world in general. I don’t think there is anything wrong with needing more “downtime” than other people. And that is one aspect of “balance” that I feel gets overlooked. If you don’t have the downtime you need, it’s easy to burn out (at the extreme) or to become ineffective in what you do (more commonly). I love my job, but I’ve structured my life so I get an afternoon nap most days and I don’t want to give that up!
But in general, I think less about balance and more about variety.
Keeping your energy up and your mind engaged is more difficult if you only give yourself one or a few tasks. That’s my biggest concern with work (even work you love) coming to dominate your life. It doesn’t allow for cross-pollination of ideas and parts of your life feeding off the energy of the other parts. It’s a bit like how we’ve come to understand that biodiversity is important in nature and how cultural diversity is important in the workforce. If your mind is singularly focused on work tasks, I fear you are limiting yourself and lacking in personal diversity.
I think a lot about work, but I also spend a chunk of the day engaged in other interests: design, urban planning, European detective shows, my kids, the Raptors, the fallibility of the human mind, digital legacy, music, dumb memes, reducing extremism in all parts of society, dogs, Lego, napping, etc.
If people get joy and energy from singular focus, more power to them, but I’d urge giving thought to how downtime and diversity of thought and activity might benefit you in the long-run.
February 13, 2019
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The Green New Deal is a one-pager for America – Fruitful.zone – Medium
“It’s meant to spark a conversation, so let’s talk about it! Buster Benson Feb 12 Original full text of the document When I read the Green New Deal , a proposal…”
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“Trätoppen, a proposed building in Stockholm. Until recently, there were two basic ways of using wood in construction: chop down whole tree trunks for heavy…”
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Why America’s New Apartment Buildings All Look the Same
“These buildings are in almost every U.S. city. They range from three to seven stories tall and can stretch for blocks. They’re usually full of rental…”
February 10, 2019
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Super-tall, super-skinny, super-expensive: the ‘pencil towers’ of New York’s super-rich
“I t is rare in the history of architecture for a new type of building to emerge. The Romans’ discovery of concrete birthed the great domes and fortifications of…”
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“I’ve talked quite a lot about the impact of machine learning and computer vision in general on everything from e-commerce recommendation to social to all kinds…”
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Russian Doll Has No Easy Answers
“Charlie Barnett and Natasha Lyonne in Russian Doll. Photo: Netflix Nadia Vulvokov has come unstuck in time. The heroine of Netflix’s Russian Doll — played by…”
February 9, 2019
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David’s Lemonade: Brandade: 5 Cents – Print Magazine
“Brandade: 5 Cents By: | February 5, 2019 AddThis Sharing Buttons 19 In the annals of Corporate Identity Manuals, the most interesting of the many that go down…”
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‘The Well’ to Transform Downtown Toronto Neighbourhood
“By Mario Toneguzzi It’s being billed as a first of its kind in Canada. The Well in downtown Toronto is a 3.1 million-square-foot mixed-use development spread…”
February 3, 2019
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Graphic Design Criticism as a Spectator Sport
“Pollice Verso (Thumbs Down), Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1872. Part One: There’s Something Wrong with Vinny It’s an imaginary summer Saturday afternoon in suburban…”
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The Teens Who Listen to ‘Mallwave’ Are Nostalgic for An Experience They’ve Never Had – MEL Magazine
“When Michael Tills from Kentucky wants to escape, he goes to the mall. He visits the old ice cream parlor and orders his favorite: mint chocolate chip with a…”
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“The Peter Saville-designed Burberry logo is part of a strategy to realign the British label on the international stage. “The company recognised the need to…”
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Countdown City (Ben H Winters, 2013)
Second of three books in the Last Policeman series – a detective novel set in the final days of the earth before we get hit by a giant asteroid.Some people freak out during the apocalypse, others just keeping doing what they know best.
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Welcome to the Bold and Blocky Instagram Era of Book Covers
“Photo: Vulture If you’re looking for the most anticipated books of 2019, chances are your search will start with Google and end at Amazon. Chances are even…”