“This $350M gift will help the university solve poverty with AI.” Imagine how much poverty you’d solve by giving that to poor people. Tech is not always the answer.
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If you have experience running design workshops and want to push yourself to do them better, push the boundaries of your usual routine, we want to help! Bring us your challenges and your ideas! May 22@Pivotal NYC
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NYC Designers, join us for our second workshop! Facilitation 201: Designing Team Workshops. Bring your facilitation challenges, we’ll help you figure out how to mitigate them. https://t.co/C032RaNIx3
Our first workshop is almost sold out! We're excited to see you all next week. If you're interested in practicing your group facilitation skills, sign up for our Facilitating Design Decisions workshop on March 27th. https://t.co/5sgJtyLigz
People often ask me what product design actually is. To design products is to understand what needs, wants, or problems people have, and to construct something that will help solve that problem.
NYC! I'm starting off a series of workshops with longtime co-conspirator @FranciscoHui! It's called Design Practice, and we do just that: practice! Our first one is March 27th, on Facilitating Design Decisions. Register here: https://t.co/1Jzn7LN5Ur
We’re excited to kick-off our first workshop! Facilitating Design Decisions: a 2-hour hands-on session for working designers to get better at aligning on solutions with their teams. Register here: https://t.co/A7dkNGMTY2
@NYGovCuomo the students @laurepat and I taught through @gencitizen have a message for you! We need adequate funding for community mental health housing! Don’t put our most vulnerable at risk! @BringItHomeNYS#BringItHomeNYS https://t.co/G2a6XSE7kc
All 3 scanners went down at my polling place — Ridgewood YMCA — and there is no technician on site!People voting by affidavit now. @NYCVotes is there supposed to be a technician on site at all times?
✨Meetup next Thurs, July 26!✨ Panel with design leaders on the topic of facilitating decisions of consequence — how do you use your design toolbox to answer those BIG questions? Sure to be interesting! Check it out: https://t.co/UtCzi5Y65W
Struggling with scaling decision making? When does bottom-up decision making work best? When is top-down necessary? Join us on June 5th for case studies from @giffco and Dave Masters, followed by discussion! https://t.co/vdzbzRWLNe
Writing or speaking about a thing doesn’t require being perfect at it. It just requires being able to reflect on why you’re sometimes able to do it well.
@franciscohui and I led a workshop on facilitation for the @agileuxmeetup tonight. We had folks write feedback for on Post-Its and it's like I got a pocket full of ✨GOLD✨. Why don't I do this for every meeting?! Thank you all!
Bezos on listening to customer complaints:
"The thing I have noticed is when the anecdotes and the data disagree, the anecdotes are usually right. There's something wrong with the way you are measuring it."
A reminder that it's ok to be goth even on Thanksgiving and that we're all more or less floating in one of billions of galaxies for no apparent reason which is goth