sam ward

A List of Things People Blamed on Jazz 🧵

@blprnt I loved that book when I first read it years ago. Sharing it with my son is such a good call.

I'm teaching another class, by the way. This one is on how to upgrade our worldview and increase our strategic acumen, using the lenses of tempo, timing and translucence. Thursday, 10 am - 12 pm Pacific. Limited audience. app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?o…

McKeesport, PA added to the "We Ruined Our Own Cities" file. 1/7

1996, we bought our fist piece of digital recording gear. Also in 1996, Bill Gates promised that on the internet, “Content is King.” And Marxist philosopher Maurizio Lazzarato published his essay, “Immaterial Labor.” Guess who had the last word (certo!) dadadrummer.substack.com/p/silver-jubil…

Last year, I helped build and scale a new Design team in the Canadian government under very scrappy conditions. 7 understatements I learned by doing design together 🧶: 1. The design process rarely feels structured, or finished.

Video calls are worse for brainstorming #Echobox=1651092399" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">cosmosmagazine.com/people/behavio…

@zoecello “I just have a few small notes…”

Our attention has value - and platforms are stripping it from us dadadrummer.substack.com/p/toward-a-com…

Embattled Ideo CEO Sandy Speicher is stepping down f-st.co/4fVqhbt

This podcast series is a shameless rip-off of my @TheAtlantic story from last April. No credit is given and the creator did zero original reporting. He even mispronounces the main character's name through all 8 episodes. (It's "kuh-SEE," not "KEY-see.") 🧵 open.spotify.com/show/36jBtvexU…

I dig reading old public-domain books from the 19th/18th centuries. So I made a little search tool *specifically* for that You type a query, it finds you one book that matches it -- and presents it for instant reading Behold the "Weird Old Book Finder": clivethompson.medium.com/a-search-engin…

A meta-analysis of 26 studies indicates that music is as effective as physical exercise in improving mental health. sciencealert.com/music-is-just-…

What could go wrong?

I'm standing on thin ice, but here we go... an homage to Komar & Melamid's Most Wanted and Least Wanted Paintings, made with @midjourney #1 "america's favorite painting"

@ARTofCOOP I JUST watched that episode!