Benji Shieh @benjishieh

moving little dials in enterprise benji.design www Joined April 2008

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Benji Shieh @benjishieh

a year ago

what's something that's past the point of complaining? of meme jokes? of another raising awareness campaign? of another news article?

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the reason naming things is the hardest problem "in computer science" is that it's not a computer science problem, it's a psychosocial summoning ceremony whose aim is to conjure exactly the desired concepts in other people's minds

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Paul Graham @paulg

a year ago

The first rule of activism: It's not enough that your actions are intended to help fix some problem. They must actually help fix it. And you can't take this for granted, because the easiest forms of activism mostly don't.

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Andrew Côté @Andercot

2 years ago

Taiwan is basically Arrakis. It's the sole source of the single most important commodity for our civilization, that if produced in enough quantities can perform miracles, enable space travel, solve longevity, birth gods. Both Chips and Spice come from sand. Both are produced…

Jeremiah Owyang @jowyang

2 years ago

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Benji Shieh @benjishieh

2 years ago

UX/Product designers — not every problem is your problem

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Carmen @carmenleelau

2 years ago

ok ok hear me out: you should all be making your own personal sigils to defend against your worst fears. it’s simple to do and works well because they’re made by *you*. here’s how

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Benji Shieh @benjishieh

2 years ago

In many ways, evolution is life finding out the hard way. We be doing that too.

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Benji Shieh @benjishieh

2 years ago

If true, would be world changing. However, would darken implications of Fermi paradox even more?!

Alex Kaplan @alexkaplan0

2 years ago

If true, would be world changing. However, would darken implications of Fermi paradox even more?!

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J.S. Park 박준 @jsparkblog

2 years ago

I’ve been a hospital chaplain now for eight years at hundreds of deathbeds. I want to tell you something I’ve witnessed. Most people, at the end, realize they’ve spent a lot of their life hiding. Sometimes by choice, or because they could not safely choose to be themselves. ➡️

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Benji Shieh @benjishieh

2 years ago

design is in its uncanny valley phase

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Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil

2 years ago

We're all familiar with the Motte and Bailey. Nick Shackel described and named it in a 2005 paper entitled "The Vacuity of Postmodernist Methodology". But did you know he also named four other rhetorical maneuvers? Let's go through them!