Popular discussions often make use of terms and concepts divorced from their origins. When I investigate, I'm sometimes delighted to find trenchant essays whose value far exceeds the buzz words or phrases they spawned.
I've recently been working on a piece about the geek style of thinking, meritocracy ...
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Contemporary discussions often make use of terms and concepts divorced from their origins. When I investigate, I'm sometimes delighted to find trenchant essays whose value far exceeds the buzz words or phrases they spawned.
For example, I highly recommend Audre Lorde's 1984 essay "The Master's Tools Will ...
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The aphorism “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it” is common in contemporary life. It is often attributed to business guru Peter Drucker, and, even if he did not say it, the notion has become a slogan for the quantified, big-data world in which we live ...
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At Northeastern this week we had a GamerGate town hall meeting and I thought it'd be useful to share some resources as a follow-up. (For those that want to read up on the particulars, I recommend the articles at RationalWiki and The Washington Post. If you really want details ...
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In Online Communities we recently spent a class focused on designing for gratitude. The task for the day was to "Give at least one Wikipedian who is not associated with our class some Wikilove. (Of course, you can also share as much Wikilove as you wish, in or out of ...
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A draft of Following the Joneses: FOMO and Conspicuous Sociality (DRAFT) is now available.
read moreABSTRACT: I argue that the emergence and proliferation of the term FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) and its siblings (FOBO, FODA, MOMO, FODO) reveals a difficulty with the management of envy and compulsion arising from social ...
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There are thousands of books about how to work and deliberate together. There's also a subgenre headed by Sun Tzu's The Art of War and Machiavelli's The Prince. Most would consider the unscrupulous implementation of these guides to be unethical, but as Richard Buskirk advised, even the ...
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Wikipedia citations and bibliographies are a confusing mess. This just isn't the case for newbies, but also experienced academics. In "Wikipedia's Citation Mess and How to Cope" I explain some sources of confusion and recommend a better (but uncommon) approach to using citations at Wikipedia.
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In the cheeky and candid way that those who follow OkTrends have come to love, Christian Rudder recently declared "We Experiment on Human Beings!".
read moreWe noticed recently that people didn't like it when Facebook "experimented" with their news feed. Even the FTC is getting involved. But guess what, everybody ...
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