designer, researcher, aspiring raconteur @ Google
San Fran, CA
Joined March 2007
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Existentialism:
~There is not a meaning to life. Instead, we're all in charge of figuring out what the meaning of our own life is.*
*This figuring out never ends.
A sticker company is putting together a 8 - 15 person AI team 🤯😳😆? Seems obvious but also seems like a signal of something 👀
tldr.tech/jobs/director-of-a…
"[Bullshitters] don’t care whether something is true or false. They care only about rhetorical power"
This captures so much of the dangers of this tech. If we're optimizing for engagement, we're optimizing for persuasiveness and not truth...
nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…
Getting an MBA is like getting a map of the world, but then realizing that the map only shows the roads and buildings and not the earth and water that sits underneath.
#mba #bschool #disenchantment
Can product research move from giving underserved users voice to giving underserved users ownership of the product? The first is about shared empathy, the second is about shared power.
But maybe that's outside the scope of product research.
#designresearch #productdesign
"There are strong signs that people are resisting the atomization of everything. It’s suited capitalism to have us all as separate as possible because then we have to all buy things individually."
nyti.ms/3Ty6x3U
Why are private lotteries illegal in so many states that run lotteries? Is it because states know they're predatory? What better argument am I missing?
"Are the workers being paid less than minimum wage because these are now tipped jobs?"
+100, cashless + tip reco's feel like they're giving tipping culture an unwanted new shot at life.
The Cost of Going Cashless nyti.ms/3tvTZPC
Goldbelly? Blackjet? The model of so many end-user startups is giving the 10% access to what the 1% has.
Today while looking at my freshly reorganized kitchen, I realized I had put my pot gummies in my medicine cabinet. Yes, 20-year-old Saj, this is who we are now.
There's no reason a website shouldn't be able to reduce your image size anymore, right? Especially for docs, etc. Shouldn't this error just be obsolete? What am I missing?
Lately I've had a hard time imagining doing work that's actually good for the world. To unblock my brain I'm going to start a running list of work that seems like good work and why it seems like good work.
This seems like good work. Namely it seems to be investigating a hypothesis about how something powerful might be doing something unethical BUT it's also very forthcoming in the limitations of its approach and its conclusions.
nrk.no/osloogviken/xl/tiktok…
What about bands in town but for art?
I'd love to put art on my wall from artists I like, but I'm having a hard time digging through my feed trying to track down everyone's shops.
"Give me 50 bucks."
"Well, what's it for?"
"Bail."
This is Americana porn at it's best.
youtube.com/watch?v=-I0g2YyL…
Cousins in India are having trouble telling real vaccines from fake ones :( . Any reco'd resources for identifying legitimate vaccines sources in India? #IndiaCovidCrisis
