Decolonizing together Briarpatch Magazine
a good explanation of the idea that decolonizing is not just an axis in an intersectional movement, it can be understood as surrounding or mixing with all the other axes.
an appendix to pearlofcivilization.net
Decolonizing together Briarpatch Magazine
a good explanation of the idea that decolonizing is not just an axis in an intersectional movement, it can be understood as surrounding or mixing with all the other axes.
“When communities can create their own currencies, they don’t have to export their own wealth to get money to use for trade. They can start trading right away and export later if they so choose.”
New Currency Frontiers: Money Can’t Buy You Love…or Trust
“In other words, money lets us transact value even though we don’t trust each other.”
The Fans Are All Right (Pinboard Blog)
a) This is adorable. b) “Avos did a similar thing last week when they relaunched Delicious while breaking every feature that made their core users so devoted to the site (networks, bundles, subscriptions and feeds). They seemed to have no idea who their most active users were, or how strongly those users cared about the product. In my mind this reinforced the idea that they had bought Delicious simply as a convenient installed base of ‘like’ buttons scattered across the internet, with the intent of building a completely new social site unrelated to saving links.”
A Manifesto for User Experience Design (Austin Govella at Thinking and Making)
‘Designers dont design anything. Organizations design everything. That one person in your organization who doesnt get it creates a drag on every product or service you produce (just as your best thinker is an accelerator). To create better experiences, you have to create better organizations. You have to improve your organizations design literacy.’