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shared by Steve Ransom on 19 Sep 13 - No Cached

shared by Istvan Rozanich on 06 Mar 13 - No Cached

Faced with a choice between maturity and pain minimization, Silicon Valley has chosen the latter.
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He thought it's a complex process that involves you telling a story, processing some sensory experience. It's not just about being confronted with pictures, facts or numbers. Now, unfortunately that's how Silicon Valley thinks, because those are the things they can record.
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how problem solvers define problems matters a great dea
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That's the kind of an app that definitely has a logic behind it. It has a philosophy and that's a philosophy that says that you need to care about the environment because you want to impress your friends.
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But other people would say, well, this is how cultural innovation happens. We need to leave certain margins of error in place and actually allow people to mix ingredients in ways that are silly and unexpectable for new cultural innovation, new culinary products to emerge. I
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t's not being marketed as a vice fee. It's being marketed as a health premium.
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need to understand that imperfection actually matters
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being unable to live in a world that still tolerates inconsistency
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shared by Steve Ransom on 21 Aug 13 - No Cached

social comparison.
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"When you're on a site like Facebook, you get lots of posts about what people are doing. That sets up social comparison — you maybe feel your life is not as full and rich as those people you see on Facebook," he says.
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"It suggests that when you are engaging in social interactions a lot, you're more aware of what others are doing and, consequently, you might be more sensitized about what's happening on Facebook and comparing that to your own life,"
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The prescription for Facebook despair is less Facebook. Researchers found that face-to-face or phone interaction — those outmoded, analog ways of communication — had the opposite effect. Direct interactions with other human beings led people to feel better.
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shared by Steve Ransom on 20 Oct 11 - No Cached

Speaking these words can be a way to commiserate with colleagues, or they can become “in jokes” among friends.  These exchanges can be OK when we are face-to-face with others, as we have body language and voice inflections to help us understand the meaning and context behind the statements.  Online is a different situation, however.
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Suddenly my Twitter stream was a teacher’s lounge.
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if we have an online presence, we must be responsible in what we say or write.  This seems simple, doesn’t it?  Nevertheless, we forget that we are not in the company of friends when we say or write the things we do.  Almost anyone can read our words, and they might misunderstand our intent.
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