#culture

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https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/

Oh my god, yes, this. Learn to code. Don't learn to code to a professional standard. Learn to do...

alasdairw Feb 20, 2020

https://kellanem.com/notes/friday-wins

"Culture is what you celebrate. Rituals are the tools you use to shape culture." Smart work, needs s...

alasdairw Jun 17, 2019
No Wool, No Vikings
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http://www.hakaimagazine.com/article-long/no-wool-...

Fascinating write up of the role of wool in viking civilisation.

alasdairw Mar 17, 2016

http://www.npr.org/sections/monkeysee/2015/05/12/4...

This is a really good essay on the Black Widow problem in the new Avengers movie. Taken by itself,...

alasdairw May 15, 2015

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/feb/1...

I mean, it's not news to anyone, but I dunno, this is still kind of chilling.

alasdairw Feb 11, 2015

http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/4/7982099/twitter-c...

Wow. Sounds like they might actually be planning to do something about the hordes of trolls wanderi...

alasdairw Feb 05, 2015

http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2013/6/15/glass...

Splendid write up about the disparity between the way consumers view their relationships with brands...

alasdairw Jul 11, 2013

http://phildearson.posterous.com/what-is-digital

Some time ago, one of our clients hired someone who was found telling us that they had "ten years ex...

alasdairw Apr 06, 2011

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfictio...

Brief, but good, analysis of our current state of future-ness. It's not exactly packed with earth s...

alasdairw Jan 20, 2011

http://weblog.muledesign.com/2010/12/giving_better...

I would like it if anyone who ever commissioned agency work was made to sit down and read this until...

alasdairw Dec 17, 2010

http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/personal_es...

This is a really really good personal summary of an obsessive book collector's relationship with his...

alasdairw Dec 02, 2010

http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2010/11/...

Not blogging this as an anti-Facebook thing, just as some interesting information about non-standard...

alasdairw Nov 09, 2010