A.W. Martin

Design technologist, product strategist, educator.
Computational design, generative ai, and urban/spatial tech.

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If "Cyberspace is the 'place' where a telephone conversation appears to occur..." (Bruce Sterling), then is the "real world" the place you are when the Internet goes down?

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Discoverability at its best.

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@gsiener Deja do

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@mreider @SlackHQ What about unstructured prompts to structured ones? Like "Ask for a meet... Why? A) I'm blocked on something; it's hard to describe. B) A decision from you C) Just to chit-chat ..."

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@rvcx Most folks try to manipulate project management tools into doing this. Most are are still too granular for grokking the context of who and why. Maybe it's a UX-class problem, a visual map of needs and gaps to teams and success measures.

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I feel there’s a latent yet pervasive opportunity for an app to help manage team topology, accountability, visibility, charter, mission, and progress. We’re all just duct-taping things together these days.

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@rvcx It makes sense. The reasons behind the Os and who writes them are critical. OKRs are a structural reporting framework, not a decision-making one. Spotify tried to address OKR shortcomings w/ Spotify Rhythm and DIBB... The problem I'm pondering is less profound.

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@rvcx That’s a potential cause, but even with a collection of small teams, working remotely in particular, the tendencies are to use long documents, email threads, and limited chat messages to update folks on progress or relate what they’re doing. Habits are hard to break and form.

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@sublimegeek I do indeed! Particularly for feedback, and lots is needed. :-) DM me!

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@gsiener If you haven’t seen it already, perhaps something to potentially make you doubt everything you’ve ever read from a media outlet? https://t.co/gyTmtbxo8k

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This is the kind of thing technology is about and ever should be about.

[Kristy Viers @Kristy_Viers]

I thought I would share how I, as someone who is visually impaired use my iPhone.☺️

[Annie Duke @AnnieDuke]

Risk accrues. Reducing risk also accrues.

Great demonstration in regards to wearing masks. Reduction of % of transmission small in any one encounter but that small reduction has a huge impact over time.

https://t.co/M0dpyA0uN3

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@jambay @HamillHimself @TimHaines Yet Another MARK-up Language... ;-)

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This is my copy...

May I please get 2 friends also to copy and repost? I trying to help demonstrate someone is always listening.

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@MarcoViappiani @realongman @dhh @adriennefranke An example of what’s bad for a real app is n-squared code. Definitely might show up in a learn-to-code lesson. I think such code may be ok for prototyping and interactive art, but only if the coder knows that’s what they’re doing. But don’t let it get to prod in the real app!

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@MarcoViappiani @realongman @dhh @adriennefranke Oh not at all. I don’t disagree with you, btw. Only qualifying my first tweet by noting not all coding-learners aim to cook perfect cakes. It’s ok for artists to code interactive installations differently from veteran engineers; the latters’ skills are needed for Hey though.

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@MarcoViappiani @dhh @adriennefranke Code isn’t only for production engineering. Check our @ProcessingOrg for example.

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@MarcoViappiani @dhh @adriennefranke Sure, but not everyone needs to learn to code under the pretense of becoming a software engineer. I agree when one is on such a track though to advance thoughtfully towards professionalism and production-readiness.

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@dhh @adriennefranke Such a great data point to show how much work building great software takes. We're surrounded by "apps" so much, and there are so many learning-to-code-made-easy programs that software creation seems so easy, but quality software takes quite an effort.