Cycles
tag > Design
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"The System is already altered by the probe used to test it." - quotes from John Gall's classic book "Systemantics"
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"The Entire Universe is Prefused with Signs, If It Is Not Composed Exclusively of Signs." - Charles Peirce
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"Information means reduction of uncertainty" - From "The Audio Revolution" - by Alex Danco
My alt version - switching focus from things ("info") to actions ("relax"):
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Would you please put that thing away and pay attention to me for a while?
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"Between stimulus and response lies a space. In that space lie our freedom and power to choose a response. In our response lies our growth and our happiness." - Viktor Frankl
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Christopher Alexander's Question
Image from "The Timeless Way of Building" Presentation -
In software engineering, rubber duck debugging is a method of debugging code. The name is a reference to a story in the book The Pragmatic Programmer in which a programmer would carry around a rubber duck and debug their code by forcing themself to explain it, line-by-line, to the duck. Many other terms exist for this technique, often involving different (usually) inanimate objects, or pets such as a dog or a cat. "Desk check your code" is the original term for this technique.
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Cyberbiomes - Discussions with mycelium and solarpunk futures & Cyberbiomes.org - Concepts, projects and initiatives at the intersection of nature, culture and technology - by Ilja Panić
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Relational Ecology and Design - talk by John Thackara
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Everyday Consumer Madness
Phones: A typical phone weighs about 150 g. Average CO2 created manufacturing average phone is 60 KG. So, a phone creates 400 times its weight in CO2 before it's first use.
Pears: Grown in Argentina, Packed in Thailand, Consumed in the United States of America
