sam ward

creating, exploring, learning @strukturevent.

[Paul Fairie @paulisci]

A List of Things People Blamed on Jazz

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[sam ward @sward13]

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

[Alex Steffen @AlexSteffen]

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.

https://t.co/GuCnpxJqjE

[Politics & Education @PoliticsAndEd]

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

[Damon K 🎤 @dada_drummer]

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!) https://t.co/ba8DN27vCf

[Aletheia Delivre @delivreal]

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.

[Cosmos @CosmosMagazine]

Video calls are worse for brainstorming https://t.co/Otoy2WZrMu

[sam ward @sward13]

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

[Damon K 🎤 @dada_drummer]

Our attention has value - and platforms are stripping it from us https://t.co/lxttMQ3KX7

[Fast Company @FastCompany]

Embattled Ideo CEO Sandy Speicher is stepping down https://t.co/u9fh7TMGpg

[Brendan I. Koerner @brendankoerner]

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.") 🧵 https://t.co/X19tHnSUXF

[Clive Thompson @pomeranian99]

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": https://t.co/Yd23Lv7rk3

[DEVO @DEVO]

https://t.co/y2hE9OuzLq

[Ted Gioia @tedgioia]

A meta-analysis of 26 studies indicates that music is as effective as physical exercise in improving mental health. https://t.co/L2kNZoPEwk

[sam ward @sward13]

What could go wrong?

[Futurism @futurism]

Woman Says Coors Paid Her $1,000 to Successfully Inject Advertisements Into Her Dreams https://t.co/SlwGFYj9xN

[Casey REAS @REAS]

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"

[sam ward @sward13]

@ARTofCOOP I JUST watched that episode!