The technical challenges, information architecture, interaction design, and digital typography are complex and tough. But if our goal is to build digital reading interfaces that improve the efficiency of our reading experience as much as the bicycle improved the efficiency of our legs, we have to not just optimize screen typography and type design, but rethink reading and writing from inside out.An essay on Improving the Digital Reading Experience by Olive Reichenstein at the iA blog.
The detail here is incredible.
The product of eighteen months of collaboration between Jay-Z and Kanye West.
The intersection of composing and cab driving. Extraordinary people doing ordinary things.
Trent Walton on how to better understand each other.Don’t over-engineer the process.
I swear, just when I’ve got my process finely-tuned, life throws a curve ball. Doing things for the love means that we’ve got to be willing to throw our process out the window from time to time.
This is one of the more harrowing and inspiring things I have found myself reading in recent memory. Worth the time to read every word and follow the links.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.Carl Sagan
SoundCloud audio engineer Evan Tenenbaum sits down for a red couch interview at Flipboard.
Danny Hillis first talking about the The Clock of the Long Now in Wired.I cannot imagine the future, but I care about it. I know I am a part of a story that starts long before I can remember and continues long beyond when anyone will remember me. I sense that I am alive at a time of important change, and I feel a responsibility to make sure that the change comes out well. I plant my acorns knowing that I will never live to harvest the oaks.
I have hope for the future.
Facebook’s Analog Research Lab.
