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Simplified Complexity 17 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
The visual beauty of an interface, or indeed everything else, is dictated by the harmony of its parts. Should every element of the composition work in concert to support one another, with nothing stic...
3 Parts of Good Visual Interface Design 14 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
Reduced to its fundamentals, good visual interface design seems to me to be composed of three parts, or requirements. How well each is met will dictate the quality of the work. If all are satisfied, w...
The Narrative 10 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
A big problem with the NSA scandal is that those opposing the surveillance expansion are directly attacking the very people who have the power to end it — in particular, the US president. By attacking...
Education v. Manipulation 9 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
In his New York Times column, David Brooks talks about the idea of “social paternalism” — the use of little “nudges” that push people towards the “correct” choices in their lives, e.g. moving unhealth...
The Price You Pay 5 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
The cost of a book or an article is not its price tag but the time and effort it costs you to read it. The value you gain from the reading may offset the cost, thus either returning the full price wit...
The Measure of Man 20 Jul 2013 | 05:00 am
The achievements of man are not marred by the failures of men. However much trash people push onto the marketplace in order to extract their share of the penny it will never be able to drown out the w...
The Idealist 18 Jul 2013 | 05:00 am
Idealism is mocked for its impracticality, ridiculed for its ambition and attacked for its impossibility — and yet — to concede to the Pragmatist is to surrender ground to Necessity, to admit not the ...
Credit 11 Jul 2013 | 05:00 am
The underserving of credit seek it the most, the deserving the least. To frame good luck as a victory of skill steals credit from the hands of Fortune and places it upon a trophy shelf for safe keepin...
Empathy 8 Jun 2013 | 05:00 am
A hatred of an ideology is a sign of a misunderstanding of it, a sign that one is still on the same level of your “adversary” — or perhaps even that one is below them. Hatred betrays a lack of empath...
The Argument 3 Jun 2013 | 05:00 am
Before you commit your argument to words, have you considered your audience? Have you established their positions, their innermost desires and fears, their outlook on the world and the situation in qu...
