Digital Ethics

My book is on Audible ... Practical Empathy--learn the eight different types of empathy, and the two you can apply in your work as creators of products, services, and experiences. Along the way, I teach you excellent listening skills. (Yes, I narrate the book.) pic.twitter.com/uyDmiPYsnc— Indi Young (@indiyoung) September 22, 2018

A Guide to Effective Questions 🤔💡🏆👥 (by @RhondaBondie1) #edchat #education #edtech #elearning #edtech #k12 #ukedchat pic.twitter.com/XVw2OXfG5r— Alex Corbitt (@Alex_Corbitt) October 6, 2018

Sonniesedge: Human, web developer, redhead.

I can't help but feel the subtle onset of nausea and an uncontrollable eye twitch whenever I hear the tech community mention the E-Word —…

Make art, not products

Time is your most valuable asset--you need to prioritize how you spend it.

Human-centered design is great for mops and phones, but it won't solve society's biggest problems

Platforms are making us complacent. Here's why.

Design for the lives your users are living — not for the value you want to extract from them

1/ A couple of months ago, I discovered my health insurer was monitoring my sleep and using it to deny me benefits. So I told my colleague @marshall_allen…https://t.co/BYU1956k1a— Eric Umansky (@ericuman) November 21, 2018

It can be easy to simply accept algorithms as indisputable mathematic truths. After all, who wants to spend their spare time deconstructing complex equations? But make no mistake: algorithms are limited tools for understanding the world, frequently as flawed and biased as the humans who create and interpret them. In this brief animation, which was adapted from a 2017 presentation at the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) in London, the US data scientist Cathy O’Neil, author of Weapons of Math Destruction (2016), argues that algorithms can be useful tools when thoughtfully deployed. However, their ...

Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

We live in a time of both extreme politics and extreme economics. The political side is familiar, but the economic side may be less so. It is represented by new concentrations of personal wealth and…

An open letter to @Facebook, @Twitter, @Instagram and @Experian regarding algorithms and my son's birth: pic.twitter.com/o8SuLMuLNv— Gillian Brockell (@gbrockell) December 11, 2018

We evolved to want variable rewards. What happens when smartphones give them to us?

Google knows nearly everything about you, from how you commute to your relationship status. There have never been more opportunities for marketers to exploit that data.

Just wow. The biggest murmuration of starlings I have ever seen. What a treat. pic.twitter.com/kFnaIDJ61v— Ricky Martin (@RexMartin) December 28, 2018

1998 "Don't get in a car with strangers" 2008: "Don't meet people from the internet alone." 2018: UBER Order yourself a stranger from the internet to get into a car with alone HEY from Imgur tagged as Being alone Meme

To truly achieve inclusiveness, we need to first look at who we’re excluding.

We can exploit the platform’s failings to reclaim our humanity

We asked teachers, professors, a psychiatrist and a technologist for their thoughts, and we heard a range of opinions on one of the most "weirdly divisive" issues in education.

I don’t want to brag, but I’m really good at sleeping. I close my eyes and fall asleep in about 45 seconds. I wake up eight hours later, no interruptions. Once, I read a Reddit thread about how sl

With toys for children that declare their love and want to chat, we bring to life a longstanding fantasy that machines might be our companions, that they might seem to not only be smart, but also to care about us.

Let me begin with a prescriptive statement: major social media companies ought to consult with trained social researchers to design interfaces, implement policies, and understand the implications o…