Victor Loux — bookmarks tagged “criticism”

Design thinking was supposed to fix the world. Where did it go wrong? | MIT Technology Review

technologyreview.com/2023/02/09/1067821/design-thinking-retrospective-what-went-wrong/

Thought-provoking audio articles from world-class publishers, crafted into bite-sized Series.

How To Criticize Coworkers

alexturek.com/2022-03-18-How-to-criticize-coworkers/

I originally wrote this as a doc, and did a talk w/ slides in Fall 2020 at Convoy. This is very focused on how to work in a software engineering team (surprise! that’s most of what I know about!) but I’ve had friends say they’ve shown this to their partners,...

Blockchain-based systems are not what they say they are

blog.mollywhite.net/blockchains-are-not-what-they-say/

The tragedy of the commons is a false and dangerous myth | Aeon Essays

aeon.co/essays/the-tragedy-of-the-commons-is-a-false-and-dangerous-myth

Far from being profoundly destructive, we humans have deep capacities for sharing resources with generosity and foresight

Slate Star Clusterfuck

mynewbandis.substack.com/p/slate-star-clusterfuck

To Understand Facebook Today, Read Its Earliest Critics | by Joanne McNeil | Oct, 2020 | OneZero

onezero.medium.com/to-understand-facebook-today-read-its-earliest-critics-ca2ca15480ab

Hardly a week goes by without another Facebook scandal. Frustration with Facebook and criticism of it — even despair over it and outright hatred of it — seems constant, evergreen. It’s been this way…

Brutalist design is the bad influence we all need

imaginarycloud.com/blog/why-we-need-web-brutalism/

Like it or not, web-brutalism is moving from something edgy and almost punk to something very mainstream and commercially viable.

Free Yourself of Your Harshest Critic, and Plow Ahead - The New York Times

nytimes.com/2017/06/13/your-money/free-yourself-of-your-harshest-critic-and-plow-ahead.html

You’re too close to your work to be a decent judge of it. So cut the paralyzing self-criticism and instead pour that energy into doing what you do.

Wikipedia redesign

jgthms.com/wikipedia-redesign.html

But you’re missing the point of designing websites. And if you provide a Wikipedia redesign only to dismiss everything that made its success, and insert your own version of Dribbble’s latest trends, then you’re probably not worth hiring because you’re incapable of analyzing the core purpose of a project and tackling real-world problems.

Twenty Terrible Reasons for Lecturing by Graham Gibbs - eBook | Oxford Brookes University Online Shop

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A number of reasons commonly given for lecturing and claims commonly made for the efficiency of lecturers are examined for their basis in empirical evidence and common sense. Most of these claims are found to be somewhat weak. It appears that lecturing takes place rather more often than can be reasonably justified. The real reasons for the popularity of lecturing amongst lecturers are then examined. Of the twenty reasons for lecturing examined here, the first nine have little substan...