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Psychologist making technology more humane. Director of UX @GoogleAI. Now https://xitter.gq/t.co/CVsHwtsG4W

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Joined April 2009
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Hugs to everyone today.
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Google UX is hiring companywide. Here in Google Research, we're looking for motivated, kind, and curious designers and user researchers for projects ranging from responsible AI tooling to new product innovation. Apply here🔽 careers.google.com/jobs/resu…
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Within Google Research: The UX Lead for Responsible AI, Scalable Tooling will help us define the future of machine learning. careers.google.com/jobs/resu…
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It hadn’t occurred to me to email people at scale and assign them to work for me for free. Excuse me with I prepare my VC pitch.
I can't believe it. Frontiers notified me that they had assigned me as editor for a manuscript and provided a link for me to select reviewers.
This episode was sobering, especially being in a town that has embraced putting dispensaries near schools. Really curious to see the dialogue that comes from it.
New Huberman Lab Podcast out now EFFECTS OF CANNABIS ON YOUR BRAIN & BODY • THC:CBD Ratio is Key • Strain-Specific Effects • on Creativity, Libido, Speech • Anxiety During & After Use • Psychosis Risk • Appetite, IQ, Memory • Age Specific Effects hubermanlab.com/the-effects-…
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Replying to @sanbenito
@sanbenito and @bgraulau's Trojan Horse of a music video is excellent and thought provoking. If you haven't heard about El Apagón, look at the runtime of this song. youtube.com/watch?v=1TCX_Aqz…
"User education" is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
thetruesize.com is still so good. Drag Chile over Europe or Canada for a chuckle.
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An example of architecture from every single country in the world, in alphabetical order. Starting with Afghanistan's Minaret of Jam. 1/196
Two great UX folks I helped interview just landed jobs leading departments that will collaborate with us and I’m SO happy about it!
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Sometimes you just leave the on-site wishing you could talk shop with that person more… and now we just might!
“Please ignore the science” is an insane political slogan.
Please ignore the science, ignore the data. Climate alarmists have a political ideology to promote, and facts can’t get in the way….
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I’m gonna call this a documentweery and give it an Oscar.
I'm fascinated by Imagineering & theme park design. One of the most fascinating Disney rides, to me, is the Shanghai version of Pirate of the Caribbean, which focuses attention in some really interesting ways. (thread 👇) youtube.com/watch?v=2TVx9_HG…
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As a prototype, though, it's amazing.
When the project is not ready, but the client wants a demo
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Most people in the US can't really read, as 54% of adults are unable to fully understand text meant for 12 year olds. What does it mean when your country doesn't read? forbes.com/sites/michaeltnie…
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According to the Dept of Education, 30% of 12th graders cannot do basic reading, a third can ONLY do basic reading, and just 37% are proficient. And that's for the people who stayed in school!
Our system of governance, including the US Supreme Court, is broken because it was designed in the 1700s and barely updated. We spend so much time revering the Constitution that we forget its biggest innovation was that it was meant to be rewritten by each generation…
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According to Jefferson, all constitutions should be renegotiated every 19 years because it is “self-evident, ‘that the earth belongs…to the living.’” jeffersonpapers.princeton.ed…
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Art as sustenance.
Replying to @KevinRBrackett
One time a quick little video of Ethan Hawke I stumbled across on instagram literally reshaped the way I thought about art
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Lurking med Twitter occasionally warms my heart. Check out Dr. Leyva’s analysis of the inequity in the physician pipeline and how to focus on the knowledge, skills, and abilities that actually help patients.
Every white person is thinking this, so allow me to address the elephant in the room: Will increasing equity in the MATCH result in less white med students matching? Not necessarily. 🧵 1/12
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Academia in the US grossly undervalues faculty. As much as I benefit from academics entering industry, it makes me sad for the next generation of students.
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Ahem.
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Very proud of this work by our UX Researchers here in Google Research.
Google researchers Courtney Heldreth and Michal Lahav are working to identify and eradicate bias in automated speech recognition, especially when it comes to race. Read about their explorations and findings ↓ goo.gle/3vRGEnu
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First visit to one of my design studios since the pandemic. Not sure how to feel.
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Moving the process along is #lifegoals.
I love finding New Yorker cartoons so dated that the joke is lost entirely and the cartoons become just descriptions of people doing normal things.
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