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Something New from XOXO
Something New from XOXO
Six years ago, we launched XOXO with a singular mission: to bring together and celebrate artists and creators of all kinds using the…
·blog.xoxofest.com·
Something New from XOXO
Group Trust Dynamics
Group Trust Dynamics
I think that we underestimate the power law of throughput by how close you are to someone. And given non-linear decay of pairwise trust as you add people to group, and group trust being the GCD of pairwise trust. So much left unsaid in the public commons of the internet— Kevin Kwok (@kevinakwok) October 22, 2018
·twitter.com·
Group Trust Dynamics
Values Length and Interpretation
Values Length and Interpretation
Single words for values are seductive because they have deep meanings. But, because they have deep meanings, you’ve little assurance that everyone has the same definition. (“What is love?”)— Sean Rose (@seanrose) October 22, 2018
·twitter.com·
Values Length and Interpretation
Teach the 1K
Teach the 1K
The event will take place in February 2019, and the deadline to apply is November 8th. If you are interested, but can't make it to NYC, please fill out the "can't make it" form on our site as we'd love to hear from you: https://t.co/l4CQUiU1Ow— Gary Chou (@garychou) October 22, 2018
·twitter.com·
Teach the 1K
Skin Tone Art
Skin Tone Art
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·twitter.com·
Skin Tone Art
Reducer Composition
Reducer Composition
Check out @mbrandonw's talk on how reducers compose, which covers how you can build up with a big ole "appReducer" out of all the smaller reducers in your code base:https://t.co/VFkcZyVxrr— Stephen Celis (@stephencelis) October 20, 2018
·twitter.com·
Reducer Composition
An argument for free functions
An argument for free functions
“@cocoaphony Right. I'm not opposed to methods, but there's a giant class of operations that do not have a "primary" object that they're acting on, and simply make more sense written as free functions because of this.”
·mobile.twitter.com·
An argument for free functions
On letting go
On letting go
So true. From The Untethered Soul pic.twitter.com/tvEmshtCA6— Tiago Forte (@fortelabs) October 10, 2018
·twitter.com·
On letting go
Parenting Chronicle
Parenting Chronicle
“@jordancooper It's a bit scattershot, but I chronicled the learnings of the first 26 weeks of fatherhood https://t.co/B6Y9Kvv6XU”
·mobile.twitter.com·
Parenting Chronicle
”I know that the “Ph.D in 4chan” comment is a joke, but seriously, people who study the language of online harassment are invaluable. I know some anti-harassment researchers and I admire their work. It’s not easy to comb through the hate to make t
”I know that the “Ph.D in 4chan” comment is a joke, but seriously, people who study the language of online harassment are invaluable. I know some anti-harassment researchers and I admire their work. It’s not easy to comb through the hate to make t
“I know that the “Ph.D in 4chan” comment is a joke, but seriously, people who study the language of online harassment are invaluable. I know some anti-harassment researchers and I admire their work. It’s not easy to comb through the hate to make the internet a better place.❤️”
·mobile.twitter.com·
”I know that the “Ph.D in 4chan” comment is a joke, but seriously, people who study the language of online harassment are invaluable. I know some anti-harassment researchers and I admire their work. It’s not easy to comb through the hate to make t
Making Yourself Irrelevant
Making Yourself Irrelevant
“You should worry about the potential damage that can be done to your business if something were to happen because not enough people were knowledgeable or had the right tools to do their job.”
·danielzarick.com·
Making Yourself Irrelevant
Praise is a vitamin
Praise is a vitamin
I was thinking about how happy I am when I get the kind of praise I need. It doesn’t make me feel smug or complacent, it makes me feel strong and empowered and like what I’m doing matte…
·heidiwaterhouse.com·
Praise is a vitamin
On Storypointing
On Storypointing
“There is no such thing as a bad estimate in regards to pointing to a story. I'm not even sure if there is such a thing as a good estimate. Use retro's to speak to inefficiencies/bottlenecks/miscommunication. Stop worrying about the damn points.”
·mobile.twitter.com·
On Storypointing
OLED Smearing
OLED Smearing
What does OLED black smearing look like? In this example, the dark grey square seems to be lagging behind the light grey square, but they’re locked together. (Needs to be viewed on an OLED screen.) pic.twitter.com/WYFEXKAvsG— Marc Edwards (@marcedwards) October 20, 2018
·twitter.com·
OLED Smearing
Song of Songs
Song of Songs
“But what happens if I can learn to measure love’s effect, and this love, which feels so real, doesn’t register?” “Reading this, I can’t help but think of those late-night phone calls, the easy seesaw of our conversation, our shared laughter. Also, the ways our bodies move together like practiced dancers, improvising to the same song. We, too, find shared rhythms easily.” “Does recording our sex occur to me? Of course it does. My urge is to clamp a hand over the mouth of that thought, much as, for many years, I used to clamp my hand over my own mouth at orgasm to stifle the sound. If I can hardly bear my own autoerotic sounds, how will it feel to hear those made in the company of my lover? Consider the mild discomfort of hearing a recording of your voice on, say, a voicemail. Multiply that discomfort infinitely. My lover has told me that I am noisy at orgasm (which she relishes), and though I suspect she is right, I have never heard myself. I am happy for this deafness. Some things I don’t want to notice, to reflect on, to consider.” “With her, more so than with any lover before, I follow my pleasure without fear of shame.” “My lover nods. This is news to only one of us. “I guess it’s not out of character,” I say. She shakes her head and smiles. When she turns back to her reading, I sneak a look at her while feigning interest in my work. I want to memorize this moment—sunlight dappling the floor, her long legs crossed at the ankle, the small rasp as she turns the page of her book—in which I feel utterly at ease, able to share my delight in multiple things with her: my strange study of our lovemaking, the recorded fact of it, her total acceptance and actual pleasure in this obscure corner of reflection. If there is a test, it feels like we have passed it. This moment, alone, is different. It is full of things I had not known before.”
·believermag.com·
Song of Songs
Teaching The Camera To See My Skin
Teaching The Camera To See My Skin
“I couldn't help but feel that what that photographer saw was so wildly different from how I saw myself.” “Somewhere in the grayscale, we didn't look so off against white skin.”
·buzzfeednews.com·
Teaching The Camera To See My Skin
Fly Me to the Moonmoon
Fly Me to the Moonmoon
"Moonmoon is an example of the linguistic process of reduplication, which is often deployed in English to make things more cute and whimsical. In the pure form of reduplication, you get words like bonbon, choo-choo, bye-bye, there there, and moonmoon but relaxing the rules a little to incorporate rhymes and near-rhymes yields hip-hop, zig-zag, fancy-shmancy, super-duper, pitter-patter, and okey-dokey. And with contrastive reduplication, in which a word repeats as a modifier to itself"
·kottke.org·
Fly Me to the Moonmoon
Everybody
Everybody
until the purple dusks on a pile of old tires And as we drift down the river on a fallen log
·feedbin.com·
Everybody