Chad Aaron Hall
@readordieaslave
👻 Cultural Critic - Made in the USA 🇺🇸 // It's all a game and there's 80% chance I'll change my mind.
Chad Aaron Hall
drunkonideas.carrd.co
I like the term “rescuing homes.” It’s an acknowledgment of what is already there instead of demolishing and replacing. The character of streets and towns is important to me. (Which is exactly what the neighbor says later in the episode, people tear down a house, stock two new houses there, and you lose character.)
re: "In with the Old" In the Heart
... See moreIt’s better for authors to think persistently and write occasionally than the other way around.
Applied Divinity Studies • [Guest post] How Substack Became Milquetoast
This was the case of Eleonora Duse, possessed by duende, who looked for plays that had failed so she could make them triumph thanks to her own inventions…
Federico García Lorca • In Search of Duende
This reminds me of Kathy Acker stealing passages and making them her own.
The reason the death of Google Reader matters, here, is that it marks a pivotal moment in the deliberate and engineered shrinking of the internet. When Google Reader died, article discovery shifted. People were no longer reading RSS feeds, finding new sites, following them, and being updated when those sites posted. Instead, they were scrolling on
... See moreKelsey McKinney • The Internet Isn't Meant To Be So Small | Defector
some of what we need is already here, especially on the web. Look at the resurgence of RSS feeds, email newsletters and blogs, as we discover (yet again) that relying on one app to host global conversations creates a single point of failure and control
Maria Farrell • We Need to Rewild the Internet
I love the way Kym Petrie describes getting into the creative space to restore a house. She describes it as “being there, lost in that space.” That triggers something for me. I do the same thing in places. It’s like your letting your mind view it’s past and maybe even its future. What was it like to live there? Can you feel that snapshot of time?
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... See moreIn the map-with-route system (direct manipulation), the user must do some of the work of understanding what they see (the map), and developing a mental model of how to apply it to their context (reading the map). In exchange for this deeper involvement, the user learns a useful mental model (their local geography) that can help them in future uses
... See morethesephist • Personalization, Measuring With Taste, and Intrinsic Interfaces
“the user must do some of the work”
Humans are much better at choosing between a few options than conjuring an answer from scratch. We’re also much better at incrementally approaching the right answer by pointing towards the right direction than nailing the right search term from the beginning. When it’s possible to take a “type in a query” kind of interface and make it more incremen
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