{"id":1213,"date":"2012-12-21T10:47:27","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T10:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adendavies.com\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2012-12-21T10:47:27","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T10:47:27","slug":"friday-reading-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adendavies.co.uk\/?p=1213","title":{"rendered":"Friday Reading #5"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is difficult not to just fill the reading list with articles about the Newtown massacre as it has brought out some fantastic writers making seemingly in arguable points about America’s unbelievably stupid gun laws. Thankfully Jason Kottke is doing a marvellous job of collating all the best pieces on his blog. Go and read them.<\/a>\u00a0I will stay a bit more ‘on brand’ and focus on the less important technology and innovation stuff. Here are the links in a handy cut out and keep tablet\/reading device friendly format<\/a>. Merry Xmas etc.<\/p>\n

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Lamps: a design research collaboration with Google Creative Labs, 2011<\/a><\/p>\n

‘We were both curious about how it would feel to have Google in the world with us, rather than on a screen.<\/p>\n

If Google wasn\u2019t trapped behind glass, what would it do?<\/p>\n

What would it behave like?<\/p>\n

How would we react to it?’<\/p>\n

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Clayton Christensen, On The Entrepreneurial Innovations Our Economy Needs<\/a><\/p>\n

‘Our current economy, however, has gone off of the rails in large part because we are focused almost entirely on efficiency innovations\u2014on streamlining and wringing bottom line savings and additional profits out of our existing organizations.’<\/p>\n

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Rebuilding The Web We Lost<\/a><\/p>\n

‘We took it as a self-evident and obvious goal that people would even\u00a0want<\/em>\u00a0to participate in this medium, instead of doing the hard work necessary to make it a welcoming and rewarding place for the rest of the world.’<\/p>\n

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Programming Your Culture<\/a><\/p>\n

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‘…all desks at Amazon.com for all time would be built by buying cheap doors from The Home Depot and nailing legs to them. These door desks are not great ergonomically nor do they fit with Amazon.com\u2019s $100+ billion market capitalization, but when a shocked new employee asks why she must work on a makeshift desk constructed out of random Home Depot parts, the answer comes back with withering consistency: \u201cWe look for every opportunity to save money so that we can deliver the best products for the lowest cost.\u201d If you don\u2019t like sitting at a door, then you won\u2019t last long at Amazon.’<\/p>\n

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The End Of Leadership<\/a><\/p>\n

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‘But over time, I have become suspicious and bitter about these perfectly casted people. In many\u00a0organisations\u00a0I have seen how cheer-\u201cleaders\u201d joyfully smile in the face of their subordinates and at the same time put a knife in the back of the same human beings.’<\/p>\n

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Reblogs and content sharing on Tumblr: a personal network analysis<\/a><\/p>\n

‘Tumblr Analytics does exist, but not for ordinary users […]\u00a0This leaves Tumblr a kind of \u201chere be dragons\u201d among social networks, which is unusual in an age so obsessed with them. That is,\u00a0its social norms are not known; there isn\u2019t any data about how its users behave and use the network. ‘<\/p>\n

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Are We Becoming Cyborgs?<\/a><\/p>\n

‘I think one of the most human tendencies is to want to have a concrete answer and a quantifiable measure of everything. And when we deal with degrees of abstraction, which is what any new technology in essence compels us to do, it can be very uncomfortable.’<\/p>\n

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And seeing as it is Xmas…<\/p>\n

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Diagnosing the Home Alone burglars’ injuries: A professional weighs in<\/a><\/p>\n

‘Assuming Harry doesn’t lose the hand completely, he will almost certainly have other serious complications, including a high risk for infection and ‘contracture’ in which resulting scar tissue seriously limits the flexibility and movement of the hand, rendering it less than 100 percent useful. Kevin has moved from ‘defending his house’ into sheer malice, in my opinion.’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is difficult not to just fill the reading list with articles about the Newtown massacre as it has brought out some fantastic writers making seemingly in arguable points about America’s unbelievably stupid gun laws. Thankfully Jason Kottke is doing a marvellous job of collating all the best pieces on his blog. Go and read […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-ramblings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adendavies.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adendavies.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adendavies.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adendavies.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adendavies.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adendavies.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adendavies.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adendavies.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adendavies.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}