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Friday, June 5th, 2015According to mashable.com, this photo posted to social media Thursday shows a woman stripping off the black garb required by the Islamic State to reveal a colorful dress underneath.
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According to mashable.com, this photo posted to social media Thursday shows a woman stripping off the black garb required by the Islamic State to reveal a colorful dress underneath.
Change isn’t a plan.
It’s not a list of things to do.
It isn’t logical.
Change is a series of emotions.
It starts in your heart, when you feel the need to go after something better.
Change is the fear things won’t work out. The frustration when they start to fall apart, the doubt that creeps in when you start to wonder if you made the right choice.
Change is the feeling that, no, dammit, I’ve got to see this though.
In the end, change is the profound feeling of satisfaction that you get from walking through the fire and coming out the other side.
Perhaps not entirely unscathed, but perhaps all the better for the scars.
Image and text by @gapingvoid
Where user experience designers start and where they finish are rarely the same place. However, as long as they keep the user in their considerations and iterations, UXers can at least ensure they end up in the right place.
A comic by Brady Bonus (@bradybonus)
When you do work that matters, the crowd will call you a fool.
If you do something remarkable, something new and something important, not everyone will understand it (at first). Your work is for someone, not everyone.
Unless you’re surrounded only by someones, you will almost certainly encounter everyone. And when you do, they will jeer.
That’s how you’ll know you might be onto something.
From Seth Godin (@ThisIsSethsBlog) on May 24, 2015
From The New Yorker, May 25, 2015 issue.
You can’t list your iPhone as your primary-care physician.
That’s what I love about social media. I can have connections with thousands of people and yet still be completely isolated and alone.
The two things that really drew me to vinyl were the expense and the inconvenience.
Our old buddy, Steve Clayton, GM, Microsoft storytelling, sends out a super cool private email every Friday-ish to friends and family (he’ll add you if you email him here – we’re all family, right .
Last Friday, Steve linked to a great post.
Life advice from a young tech entrepreneur turning 30.
I wish I had my s**t together like Sam does at 30.
The gist of the post is, stay out of your comfort zone at work, and in it as much as you possibly can with your family.
Coming up in the age of the internet and social, even more so.
Sam pretty much nailed the whole work/life thing.
Well worth the read.
Image and text by @gapingvoid
"We are all mortal untill the First Kiss and the second glass of wine."
RIP Eduardo Galeano pic.twitter.com/3VcA6cuUb2
— Panh Rithy (@RPanh) April 13, 2015
Motto on the wall at +1stbuild at the #HacktheHome hackathon, picture by Dustin Kirkland (@dustinkirkland)
Welcome to the human condition: we want everything to change; yet we still want to be able to carry the old baggage around with us.
i.e. We say we want to change everything from the ground up – except for all the old habits that dominate our lives completely.
St. Augustine had a prayer about this: “O Lord, make me chaste. Just not yet.”
Any leader in business is going to run into this with his or her people, from the beginning, every day, forever and ever. It isn’t ever going away.
It’s like the Higgs Field of humanity; it’s just there.
Image and text by @gapingvoid
Image from Dominic Roy at National Geographic.
This great picture is both funny and worrying. The posture of this owl fighting against the wind seems to me like the perfect evocation of the usual entrepreneur in France.
There’s what you do. And then there’s who you are.
Remembering this is terribly important. Maybe the most important thing of all.
This image for Zappos is about that transition, about bringing larger meaning to the work they do.
Because if you don’t have that big picture, it makes it hard to get excited about the day to day.
But if you do – if you have that deep sense of purpose – work becomes joy.
Image and text by @gapingvoid
A street art worth 100 poems by Ernest Zacharevic.
A recent article by the title How to Prevent Overdiagnosis, published in Swiss Medical Weekly, accurately sums up the issues about overdiagnosis.
Overdiagnosis, as defined in the summary is the diagnosis of an abnormality that is not associated with a substantial health hazard and that patients have no benefit to be aware of.
In their conclusion, the authors, mainly from the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (IUMSP), Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland, provide a perfectly concise 5 bullet points overview of overdiagnosis issues:
A column from Sep 6, 2011 by Dr. George Lundberg and Dr. Clifton Meador about a set of 22 false assumptions, practice failures, and everyday clinical errors that they believe are common in modern medical practice:
And, number 22, perhaps the most important to today’s society:
Many of the false assumptions listed here can be found in Clifton Meador’s book "A Little Book of Doctors’ Rules" published in 1992 by Hanley & Belfus, out of print, but still available at Amazon.
Complete (almost) genealogy of what I've called THE BLACK SWAN PROBLEM pic.twitter.com/b206P6W9qr
— Nassim NicholنTaleb (@nntaleb) January 2, 2015