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Links for July 2nd

Cash registers: window into the retail experience – Adaptive Path
"It's funny how Apple's moves are really just taking us full circle. For our research, we also wandered the farmers' market at the Ferry Building (which happens to be next to our office). And the kind of transactions you see in that environment—chatting about the products available, handing over cash, counting out change, walking away with your item—are how we have conducted commerce for hundreds of years, and the simply human-ness of this exchange is far more appealing than the computerized beeps and back black panels and 'Waiting for authorization…' that we have becomed used to."
tags:
adaptive-path
user-experience
business
design

Links for July 1st

YouTube – ‪Vegan Black Metal Chef Episode 1 Pad Thai‬‏
Just what it says: black metal, with a vegan paid thai recipe.
tags:
music
humor
video
I Pledge Allegiance | Dancing on Saturday
"So rather than allegiance to a flag or a nation I want to offer my own rendition of a pledge, one that I think the Pastor, Prophet and Poet John would give his consent to."
tags:
theology
culture
bible
revelation
Rands In Repose: DNA
This is (to me) an entirely new way of looking at leadership. In this case, it's looking at engineering positions, though it would just as profoundly transform design teams, or probably any other kind of team. It's a way to take advantage of leaders without taking them away from what they do well, and this is unique in the business world.
tags:
business
leadership
Relationships, not Justice vs Compassion | Hugh's Views
"If the church were to focus on entering into relationship with the poor instead of merely having compassion for the poor or instead of working for justice for the poor, then the church could learn from the poor."
tags:
poverty
church
activism

Links for June 28th

An open letter to speakers « Scott Berkun
"With simple forethought and commitment, you can do a much better job than most other speakers regardless of how much 'talent' you have."
tags:
public-speaking

Links for June 25th

Why Liberal Religious Arguments Fail | Politics | Religion Dispatches
"What is the point here? The point is that there IS no point to endless argumentation. Hearts and minds don’t change that way. They change when we share our stories and when we become present in a different way to those whom we wish to influence. The further point is that hearts change before minds do. It rarely works the other way around."
tags:
story
culture
politics
theology

Links for June 22nd

The Age of the Essay
Learn what an essay really is. Hint: it's not what they taught in school. It's something far more interesting and, yes, surprising. I had no idea where this was going.
tags:
culture
writing

Links for June 21st

Frank Chimero’s Blog – The Storm and The Line
Take a step back and think of why we make, and can remake.
tags:
culture
design
How to Land Your Kid in Therapy – Magazine – The Atlantic
"Modern social science backs her up on this. 'Happiness as a byproduct of living your life is a great thing,' Barry Schwartz, a professor of social theory at Swarthmore College, told me. 'But happiness as a goal is a recipe for disaster.' It’s precisely this goal, though, that many modern parents focus on obsessively—only to see it backfire. Observing this phenomenon, my colleagues and I began to wonder: Could it be that by protecting our kids from unhappiness as children, we’re depriving them of happiness as adults?"
tags:
culture
parenting

Links for June 20th

daddy love | kathy escobar.
"i was thinking yesterday how the world doesn’t need more 'strong men who can lead and take control'.  the world needs more 'strong, kind men who can love deeply & passionately & freely', who are willing to risk their time and heart and egos and pride to love their families–both biological & adopted–through little-pockets-of-love."
tags:
fatherhood
kathy-escobar
How Many Agencies Pitch “What You’ll Learn From This Project?” » UIE Brain Sparks
"I’m wondering how many design agencies, when they are pitching a project to a client, focus on the 'What your team will learn from our work' section of their pitch? Or how many even have such a section?"
tags:
design
user-experience

Links for June 16th

Atonement, without the theoretical nonsense | P.OST
"We may still need to say, quite simply, that Jesus died for our sins so that we may be part of a people reconciled to the God who brought it into existence to be 'new creation'. Jesus’ death has opened up to me personally the possibility of being a player in God’s new world. But the continuing dependence of the people of God on the death of Jesus needs to be construed and explained not in abstract theoretical terms but narratively, historically—and of course, biblically."
tags:
paul
new-testament
jesus
atonement
Welcome to the Jungle: Shaping User-Generated Content – Web Standards Sherpa
"While we can’t—and shouldn’t—try to dictate exact nature of the content our users create, our design choices do shape the content our users submit, and affect how it’s used."
tags:
user-experience
content-strategy
design

Links for June 14th

Post-Artifact Books and Publishing — by Craig Mod
A road toward the necessary examining of the effects of digital on books (producing, distributing, and consuming), rather than just how to make books (in their previous form) digital.
tags:
books

Links for June 13th

NextReformation » the examen
"The Prayer of Examen is primarily an exercise in remembering. More than this, it is a path toward a more reflective lifestyle and to greater openness, in daily experience, to the presence and guidance of the Holy Spirit."
tags:
prayer
spirituality

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