@ARealJoeWright @matthews_p @matthewwalther Lately I've been thinking of the game played in MLB stadiums as "arena" baseball.
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Adam Lefton
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Adam Lefton
@LeftonBomb
Writer. Ballplayer. Part Robot. Host of @Sandlot_social. Short Fiction in @on_squ @wsrlitjournal @hobartpulp and @pankmagazine.
Austin, TX Katılım Mart 2009
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@matthewwalther Check out sandlot baseball. MLB and the gov't, joining forces to make baseball better? I don't see it happening. But ordinary people continuing to play the game and weaving it into the fabric of civic life gives me hope.
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Last spring, I started playing baseball again in Austin, TX. This spring, I'll be telling you all about what's happening in the world of sandlot baseball in a new podcast. Check out our trailer and pls follow #playmorebaseball open.spotify.com/episode/297g4m…
Sandlot Social Club Podcast@Sandlot_Social
Episode 1 coming early 2022 ⚾️
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This promotes the dangerous assumption that an employees most important contributions are happening when they’re touching a mouse and keyboard.
Wolfie Christl@WolfieChristl
Esoteric metrics based on analyzing extensive data about employee activities has been mostly the domain of fringe software vendors. Now it's built into MS 365. A new feature to calculate 'productivity scores' turns Microsoft 365 into an full-fledged workplace surveillance tool:
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The influence of a President’s policies and decisions have lagging effects that sometimes take years to manifest. Guess who inherits the blame?
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Espn shares the betting lines and tells you how much money you can win on the #WorldSeries before the start of every game..meanwhile Pete Rose is still banned from baseball for betting on his team to WIN.
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That moment when you realize you put the cheese away with the crackers last night, and now the cheese is dead.
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Tech sells innovation. But just because it comes on a screen, or in the cloud, doesn't make it the future. The reality is the industry's plagued by too few good, new ideas, a deep conservatism, and decisions driven mostly by fear of losing market share, influence, and power.
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Product dream: the equivalent of an answering machine for texts to help manage time away from phone: Adam's phone is off right now or he's left it at home or perhaps thrown it into a lake. He'll get back to you soon, or maybe never.
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"There are two wolves inside you," said the old man. "They are fighting to the death."
"That's a pretty used-up meme format," said the boy without looking up from his phone.
"You and that damn phone," said the old man.
mcsweeneys.net/articles/there…
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It's normal to feel small when an insidious menace of wealth and power is attempting to seize control of your life and rule over you till the end of time.
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Interesting. One of the responses mentioned that some healthcare providers in the US have begun to refer to 'patients' as 'customers' internally. I'm struggling to see what's wrong with patient though.
Vivek@vivekmaya
@Theoutsider_vpk @LeftonBomb Oooh interesting...yeah, I guess it does depend on context!
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Personas are well intentioned, for sure. As are many of the other techniques that aim to add complexity to the "user." They help, but they don't solve the problems I'm talking about as much as they mitigate them (imo). Ultimately, I'm not ready to bank the future on personas.
Jason Arnold@obliviousgeek
@LeftonBomb @Medium Interesting read, but I don't really agree. You haven't addressed the other side of UX at all, user research, where you try to understand your users and develop/refine personas. From there I think it's reasonable to stop saying "users" and use the personas to guide discussions.
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@LinusEkenstam So I'm hopeful that by ditching the words I'll be more open to that search. I'll also have to actively search for accurate language in day-to-day conversations, which I think will help.
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@LinusEkenstam Likewise. I think we're too quick to label things. But what I'm really searching for is a more of a process, a framework that isn't fixated on use. I just don't think I can do that while still stuck on old words.
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Hey! @LeftonBomb - liked your words on users. I'm a bit sad that we look for labels in the first place. You are searching to replace a label with a new one. To justify your own bias? or the bias of an industry? Are they customers? Are they simply put just humans?
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