John Monberg

@KevinMKruse If you ignore well regulated militia you are an enemy of the Second Ammendment

Fieldnotes and Sketches in User Experience: You can read the whole presentation including a summary of findings here: lnkd.in/g33fNqU My blog: Anthropology for Design lnkd.in/giGt9Ug #UserExperience #Ethnography #AnthropologyForDesign

The basketball press exists mostly to promote the league there is no other entity that I have encountered—including politicians, police departments, and other sports leagues—which harasses journalists with such consistency. newyorker.com/news/our-colum… via @NewYorker

How to Spend Your City’s Money newyorker.com/business/curre… via @NewYorker

Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond says if the top 1% of Americans paid the taxes they owed, it would raise $175 billion each year. "That is just about enough to pull everyone out of poverty," the author says. n.pr/42I9bK8

@akbarjenkins Here’s a study nature.com/articles/s4156…

What would you guess is the % of professors at Ivy League universities whose parents were professors? I would guess it’s at least 50%, particularly in the humanities and social sciences. It’s the family business

The Safety of Light: A Short History of Light in Public Spaces flip.it/oEpdyM

Lots of architecture and urban planning news from ⁦@newcity⁩: Jeanne Gang to design women’s baseball museum in Rockford; Evan Jahn on Google and the Thompson Center, and my talk, “Downtown Shall Rise Again.” newcity.com/2023/03/21/tod…

New Strategies for Preventing Green Gentrification flip.it/AGsvzA

Photos of Southeast Chicago and Northwest Indiana by Bob Thall, 1986-1988

Celebrating #WorldPoetryDay with @michiganstateu Associate Professor Divya Victor (@sugaronthegash) and her thoughts on how poetry can help curb racism. youtube.com/watch?v=Km33BR…

“How to master the most important skill for UX storytelling” by Slava Polonski, PhD link.medium.com/OQTHcHXomyb

@PatrickB_1986 @IDoTheThinking They would feel bad if they really understood how the neighborhoods they’ve lived in have benefited and been subsidized by many generations of public policy. Much easier if race is invisible.

@IDoTheThinking Don’t bother. They know and they don’t care. stem majors are in fact aware of US history. Also, if you push them too hard, they’re going to go with more essentialist theories of inferiority, which idk if that serves you

@chibbqk1ng Very often the boldest, brightest colors in a neighborhood.

Did you know Chicago style food is also an art movement?

@pacgator77 @JohnnyValz @IDoTheThinking @mattyglesias One person acting as a mentor can transform the entire path of a young student’s life. There are countless opportunities to make a difference.

@jmonberg @JohnnyValz @IDoTheThinking @mattyglesias A school system with parents who don't instill discipline could have a billion dollar budget and still get poor results. Only parents can enforce the level of discipline needed for a child to be teachable. Schools are helpless when it comes to that, the most important aspect.

This has every single Stumbling Empire trope in the book. In no universe would the NYT ever write this “we meant well” revisionism for an Enemy State. Pure, unadulterated propaganda targeting the NPR tote bag set nytimes.com/2023/03/18/wor…

Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, 'Infinity Mirrored Room, The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away'. #WomensArt

Would you sit on a bench in front of a 5 lane wide stroad where cars go 50 mph?

@JohnnyValz @IDoTheThinking @mattyglesias We can’t live in a society where kids who lose the parental lottery are just written off. Given deep the structural inequalities that affect parenting, society needs to support families that have been disadvantaged.

@IDoTheThinking @mattyglesias When education is stressed in the home it leads to good students. When it’s not it leads to bad students ... and it has little to do with economics because most of those Chinese and Indian A- students come from barely middle class families

Ok!. We launched the cities in #placemaking program!