Carl

human experience designer
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the views expressed herein are my own and do not reflect the position of my employer

[Carl @angiolillo]

@printtemps @ElephantEating @jimmyonabike @temcmillan As a compulsive rule-following boy scout it took me a longer than most to realize traffic laws (and the rules promulgated by bicycle rodeos) were made by drivers for the benefit of drivers and that staying alive and following the "rules" were not always in alignment.

[Carl @angiolillo]

@printtemps @ElephantEating @jimmyonabike @temcmillan In NYC, I have had drivers scream at me, assuming my raised left had was some kind of obscene or angry gesture. Point with right hand is understood 100% of the time.

[Carl @angiolillo]

@ElephantEating I had always heard this is one reason pirates wore eye-patches, to maintain their night vision when they briefly went above-deck. No idea if true, but tying any fact back to pirates makes it better.
https://t.co/cE0SL1RPnY

[Bike Snob NYC @bikesnobnyc]

Utterly senseless and horrible. And look at that parking lot. People freak out about bikes on the sidewalk yet you can't walk two feet in a lot of neighborhoods without crossing an active driveway, as every parent of a scooting child knows.

https://t.co/MWJmr5acK5

[(((Matthew Lewis))) cults & consequences @mateosfo]

The car industry's disregard for lives & safety of humans *outside the vehicle* is a core part of car culture. The industry makes a perfect box to protect inhabitants. But they need the rest of us to not care about who else gets maimed or killed. Their biz model depends on it.

[Carl @angiolillo]

@leandrolefa I love that you came back more than a month later to correct :) that's dedication my friend

[Carl @angiolillo]

Google Tasks work in GMail and a stand-alone app while Google Reminders work in Inbox, Calendar, and Assistant. Am I the only one who is confused by when I should use one or the other?

[Matt Weber is out of here @mattweberphd]

I felt sick reading this. I feel sick reading about older kids getting separated too, but literally pulling an infant from her mother's breast is heart-stoppingly cruel. https://t.co/jMGxlGOBgl

[Carl @angiolillo]

Meanwhile, back in America... https://t.co/nj80xuzUBd

[Carl @angiolillo]

This looks like one of those "highly civilized" planets that the Enterprise crew visits. There's even a train in a transparent tube! https://t.co/yRVH49aZpq

[Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife]

The Dutch are famous for re-orienting their larger cities around bicycle transportation since the 1970s. What’s less known is that some of their newer suburbs have never been auto-oriented.

Instead, they were built with bicycling in mind from day one.

https://t.co/q9RBaD0CgM

[Faye Bi | 毕翼飞 @faye_bi]

Today my husband was cut off by @FedEx driver while biking along Greenpoint Ave in Greenpoint, NYC. When he verbally confronted him, the driver goaded him and the passenger of the truck GOT OUT AND TACKLED HIM OFF THE BIKE TO THE GROUND. AND THEN SPED OFF.

[Carl @angiolillo]

@diceo Nice! I gave up on it as my default after trying to take notes on one too many locked-down conference room computers.

[Carl @angiolillo]

Ok it's midnight and I'm seriously tempted to learn a new keyboard layout for fun. I need someone to either talk me out of it or recommend a chording setup. Plover? Microwriter/CyKey? ASETNIOP? SpiffChorder? Braille keyboard?

[Daniel Kay Hertz @DanielKayHertz]

It is, when you think about it, weird that I can leave a large, obtrusive object on the street free of charge, but only one very particular kind of large, obtrusive object

[Chris Hayes @chrislhayes]

I am reading these first-hand accounts of mothers who had their children taken from them, with no word of where they were going or how to contact them, and I'm thinking about someone doing that to me and my kids and I feel a rage so powerful I think I'm gonna pass out.

[Carl @angiolillo]

@SriVIyer @BrentToderian The gap in the Vernon Blvd bike lane above is likely to provide access to the hydrant and parking lot beyond.

But honestly I'd still rather raise kids in a place where drivers respect the law and other people's safety even without concrete and steel fortifications to protect us.

[Carl @angiolillo]

@leandrolefa Yes, I think New Yorkers are very accommodating to visitors, it's other New Yorkers (or commuters) who seem to draw the most ire.

[Carl @angiolillo]

Strange how people have such diametrically opposed New York City experiences.

I like the work here but find the city emotionally challenging, like a psych experiment to understand how an absence of free time, personal space, nature, quiet, and/or money affects ambitious people. https://t.co/tosk3gN2Wt

[Carl @angiolillo]

@bwzimmerman I think that's it -- the constant zero-sum competition for use of the roads, sidewalks, benches, subways, restaurants, everything.