Paul Ehrlich’s False Gospel “Pessimists are of two types, the catastrophists, that is to say the types who look up in the starry heavens and see (metaphorically) only asteroids in the sky racing towards us to wipe us out as the dinosaurs were wiped out; and existential pessimists, that is to say those who see […]

The idea of history as progress is underpinned by a hidden theology "On the other hand, we all love a story: one with a beginning, middle and end. And to see history as simply one damn thing after another seems to rob it of that larger meaning that many want to read into it."

Don’t Compete On Features | Adii Pienaar Branding + Service/Experience

Paul Adams: How to Design Social Experiences Interaction Design Association

The Post-Gladwellian Paradox: Why Intuitive is the New Counterintuitive | The Ümlaut

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Checklist: What are 4 steps to a more meaningful life? by Eric Barker Barking Up The Wrong Tree

Baseball Therapy: Maybe I`m Wrong by Russell A. Carleton by (author unknown) Baseball Prospectus

The best interface is no interface | Cooper Journal “It’s time for us to move beyond screen-based thinking. Because when we think in screens, we design based upon a model that is inherently unnatural, inhumane, and has diminishing returns. It requires a great deal of talent, money and time to make these systems somewhat usable, […]

Percy and Sagan in the Cosmos "Looked at in one way…Phil Donahue and Carl Sagan have very little in common; looked at in Percy’s way, they serve an almost identical function as guides who gently distract us from attention to how we’re being formed and how we might be formed differently."