Temporary and Unnamed

an edgeless surface of unknown proportions comprised of small, individual, and variable elements from multiple vantages assembled into a readable whole that documents a moment

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Also known as Web DesignSource

an edgeless surface of unknown proportions comprised of small, individual, and variable elements from multiple vantages assembled into a readable whole that documents a moment

That’s a pretty good description of the visual challenges in interaction design, huh?

whisper: what the hell!

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shapes are a kind of wordSource

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Man or Astroman? - A spectrum of infinite scale [Full Album]Source

The band plays an ImageWriter II on the eleventh song, "A Simple Text File."

"Pathway to the Infinite"
"Song of the Two-Mile Linear Particle Accelerator" Stanford University, Stanford California
"Preparation Clont"
"Curious Constructs of Stem-Like Devices Which Now Prepare Themselves to Be Thought of as Fingers"
"Um Espectro Sem Escala"
"Many Pieces of Large Fuzzy Mammals Gathered Together at a Rave and Schmoozing with a Brick"
"Trapezoid"
"Very Subtle Elevators"
"Within One Universe There Are Millions"
"Spectrograph Reading of the Varying Phantom Frequencies of Chronic, Incurable Tinnitus"
"A Simple Text File"
"Obligatory Part 2 Song in Which There Is No Presently Existing Part 1, Nor the Plans to Make One"
"Multi-Variational Stimuli of Sub-Turgid Foci Covering Cross Evaluative Techniques for Cognitive Analysis of Hypersignificant Graph Peaks Following Those Intersubjective Modules Having Biodegradable Seepage"

Crack your knuckles

This icon is my file. My file is this icon.

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John Sircusa, About the Finder...Source

If Mac OS X has a secret shame, it's the Finder.

stretch your left leg

In his work, Dr. Smith envisioned a scenario in which "visual entities", called icons, could execute lines of programming code, and save the operation for later re-execution.

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Icon (computing) - WikipediaSource

In his work, Dr. Smith envisioned a scenario in which "visual entities", called icons, could execute lines of programming code, and save the operation for later re-execution.

Pull your left earlobe

SVG files are essentially printable text that describes both straight and curved paths, as well as other attributes.

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Vector graphicsSource

SVG files are essentially printable text that describes both straight and curved paths, as well as other attributes.

Look through a hole in the paper

an edgeless surface of unknown proportions comprised of small, individual, and variable elements from multiple vantages assembled into a readable whole that documents a moment

8582326

Also known as Web DesignSource

an edgeless surface of unknown proportions comprised of small, individual, and variable elements from multiple vantages assembled into a readable whole that documents a moment

That’s a pretty good description of the visual challenges in interaction design, huh?

DMT Waiting Rooms contain entities that at times do interact directly with you.

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The Hyperbolic Geometry of DMT Experiences, Andrés Gómez-Emilsson, 2016Source

DMT entities come in many forms, and their overall quality is extremely dosedependent. Rather than describing any specific manifestation we will instead briefly characterize the rough properties of the entities experienced based on the level reached.

Threshold: Usually the ambiance change has a social feel to is. More similar to entering a room of people of an alien culture, than entering an empty cave or a warm pool on your own. In this sense the very beginning of a DMT experience may already frame the experience in social terms and facilitate the expectation of meeting entities.

Chrysanthemum: One can feel perhaps the subtle presence of entities, but they are often interpreted as “feeling connected” to one’s friends, relatives and acquaintances. The feeling does not manifest in any clear spatial way, though. Other than that, this state is apersonal in the sense that one does not see any entity directly.

Magic Eye: Here the entities can be roughly described as having an impersonal relationship with you. They are just there, hanging out on their own, often engrossed with whatever activities your world-sheet is capable of representing for them.
Waiting Room: At this level entities start becoming able to interact with you. They feel like autonomous beings wrapped in mystery. Their intentions, what they know, and their emotional states can be guessed from their behavior, but they are not immediately obvious.

Breakthrough: At this level the entities one meets seem to have what we might call a transpersonal relationship with you. They share their own internal states (emotions, knowledge, wishes, etc) with you. It feels like they can communicate telepathically and “see through” you. One cannot hide one’s “private” mental contents from them at this level.

Amnesia: One cannot remember, of course, exactly what happens here. But if trip reports are any indication, this level is reminiscent of highly “mystical” states in which one’s implicit beliefs about Personal Identity[29] are obliterated and replaced by the feeling of becoming an all-encompassing entity. “Union with God” and “Samadhi[30]” are terms that describe the subjective feeling of self in this state. In other words, at this level it is impossible to distinguish between oneself and other entities, for all is represented as one. (Beware of never trying to go here if you feel bad at the time since negative hedonic tone can be amplified just as much as a good feeling such as Samadhi).

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▋▅▉▝▊ || beyond resolutionSource

Refuse to let the syntaxes of history direct our futures Beyond Resolution and the iRD focus on noise artifacts that result from accidents in both analogue and digital media. These artifacts can facilitate an important insight into the otherwise obscure alchemy of standardization via resolutions. Th…

Rub your left eye

We don’t do PowerPoint (or any other slide-oriented) presentations at Amazon. Instead, we write narratively structured six-page memos. We silently read one at the beginning of each meeting in a kind of “study hall.” Not surprisingly, the quality of these memos varies widely. Some have the clarity of angels singing. They are brilliant and thoughtful and set up the meeting for high-quality discussion. Sometimes they come in at the other end of the spectrum.

In the handstand example, it’s pretty straightforward to recognize high standards. It wouldn’t be difficult to lay out in detail the requirements of a well-executed handstand, and then you’re either doing it or you’re not. The writing example is very different. The difference between a great memo and an average one is much squishier. It would be extremely hard to write down the detailed requirements that make up a great memo. Nevertheless, I find that much of the time, readers react to great memos very similarly. They know it when they see it. The standard is there, and it is real, even if it’s not easily describable.

Here’s what we’ve figured out. Often, when a memo isn’t great, it’s not the writer’s inability to recognize the high standard, but instead a wrong expectation on scope: they mistakenly believe a high-standards, six-page memo can be written in one or two days or even a few hours, when really it might take a week or more! They’re trying to perfect a handstand in just two weeks, and we’re not coaching them right. The great memos are written and re-written, shared with colleagues who are asked to improve the work, set aside for a couple of days, and then edited again with a fresh mind. They simply can’t be done in a day or two. The key point here is that you can improve results through the simple act of teaching scope – that a great memo probably should take a week or more.

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Six-Page Narratives, Exhibit 99.1, Annual Shareholder Letter, Jeff Bezos, 2018Source

We don’t do PowerPoint (or any other slide-oriented) presentations at Amazon. Instead, we write narratively structured six-page memos. We silently read one at the beginning of each meeting in a kind of “study hall.” Not surprisingly, the quality of these memos varies widely. Some have the clarity of angels singing. They are brilliant and thoughtful and set up the meeting for high-quality discussion. Sometimes they come in at the other end of the spectrum.

In the handstand example, it’s pretty straightforward to recognize high standards. It wouldn’t be difficult to lay out in detail the requirements of a well-executed handstand, and then you’re either doing it or you’re not. The writing example is very different. The difference between a great memo and an average one is much squishier. It would be extremely hard to write down the detailed requirements that make up a great memo. Nevertheless, I find that much of the time, readers react to great memos very similarly. They know it when they see it. The standard is there, and it is real, even if it’s not easily describable.

Here’s what we’ve figured out. Often, when a memo isn’t great, it’s not the writer’s inability to recognize the high standard, but instead a wrong expectation on scope: they mistakenly believe a high-standards, six-page memo can be written in one or two days or even a few hours, when really it might take a week or more! They’re trying to perfect a handstand in just two weeks, and we’re not coaching them right. The great memos are written and re-written, shared with colleagues who are asked to improve the work, set aside for a couple of days, and then edited again with a fresh mind. They simply can’t be done in a day or two. The key point here is that you can improve results through the simple act of teaching scope – that a great memo probably should take a week or more.

straighten one leg

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The Secret Life Of The OfficeSource

Today, over 50% of jobs are in offices, but 160 years ago the figure was only 1%, and the only office workers were 'Dickensian' clerks. They had considerable status and freedom to organise their work, and kept financial ledgers, but there were no forms, memos, reports, etc.

rotate your right ankle

To continue development, the team needed more money. Apple's Strategic Investment Group selected the company for its first investment. One month later, when they announced the software at the Personal Computer Forum in Phoenix, famous Apple CEO John Skully reportedly said "We see desktop presentation as potentially a bigger market for Apple than desktop publishing".

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The History and Evolution of PowerPoint, Pia Lehner-MittermaierSource

On April 20, 1987, the first version of PowerPoint was released. Because we love the software so much (and we know many of you readers do, too!), we wanted to celebrate PowerPoint’s 33rd birthday with a whole article dedicated to its origins, history, and use cases! 95% of presentations are created with PowerPoint, 30 Million PowerPoint presentations are given everyday, and 500 million people all over the world are using the software.

So without further ado, let’s dive into the success story of PowerPoint - with the early beginnings and the development throughout the different versions (except for version 13, which was skipped due to triskaidekaphobia concerns).

clench

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shapes are a kind of wordSource

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The Vectoralist Class - Journal #65 May 2015 - e-fluxSource

Connect a supplier of materials to a site of processing with a vector

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img_5100.jpg

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Man or Astroman? - A spectrum of infinite scale [Full Album]Source

The band plays an ImageWriter II on the eleventh song, "A Simple Text File."

"Pathway to the Infinite"
"Song of the Two-Mile Linear Particle Accelerator" Stanford University, Stanford California
"Preparation Clont"
"Curious Constructs of Stem-Like Devices Which Now Prepare Themselves to Be Thought of as Fingers"
"Um Espectro Sem Escala"
"Many Pieces of Large Fuzzy Mammals Gathered Together at a Rave and Schmoozing with a Brick"
"Trapezoid"
"Very Subtle Elevators"
"Within One Universe There Are Millions"
"Spectrograph Reading of the Varying Phantom Frequencies of Chronic, Incurable Tinnitus"
"A Simple Text File"
"Obligatory Part 2 Song in Which There Is No Presently Existing Part 1, Nor the Plans to Make One"
"Multi-Variational Stimuli of Sub-Turgid Foci Covering Cross Evaluative Techniques for Cognitive Analysis of Hypersignificant Graph Peaks Following Those Intersubjective Modules Having Biodegradable Seepage"

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michele-serres-the-parasite-logic-oof-the-fuzzy-56-57.jpg

In mathematics, fuzzy sets (a.k.a. uncertain sets) are sets whose elements have degrees of membership.

pull up your sleeve

SVG files are essentially printable text that describes both straight and curved paths, as well as other attributes.

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Vector graphicsSource

SVG files are essentially printable text that describes both straight and curved paths, as well as other attributes.

tap your teeth

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isotype_family.pngSource

Visual education was always the prime motive behind ISOTYPE. It was not intended to replace verbal language, rather it was a “helping language” accompanied by verbal elements. Neurath was deeply convinced that his "world language without words" would not only enhance education but facilitate international understanding.

Frown

Tell your story with illustrations

Easily create and customize stunning illustrations with collections made by artists across the globe. Try it, it’s kind of fun.

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blush.designSource

Tell your story with illustrations

Easily create and customize stunning illustrations with collections made by artists across the globe. Try it, it’s kind of fun.

The brain can't do two things at once

Pichai and Google's slide designers are creating brain-friendly presentations. Cognitive scientists say it's impossible for us to multitask as well as we think we can. The brain cannot do two things at once and do them equally well. When it comes to presentation design, we can't read text on the screen and listen to the speaker while retaining all of the information. It can't be done.

University of Washington biologist John Medina has done extensive research into persuasion and how the brain processes information. His advice is to burn most PowerPoint decks and start over with fewer words and more pictures. According to his book, Brain Rules, "We are incredible at remembering pictures. Hear a piece of information, and three days later you'll remember 10 percent of it. Add a picture and you'll remember 65 percent."

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Google's CEO Doesn't Use Bullet Points and Neither Should YouSource

Google's Sundar Pichai gives a master class for creating simple, engaging presentations.

change hands if you hold this document

When this essay was first written for the Alvin Fine Memorial Lecture at San Francisco State University in April 1985, I was not fully aware of how much the times had already changed since I wrote The Making of a Counter Culture in 1969. But I soon learned. A few weeks before the lecture, a student in the Public Affairs Office at San Francisco State called me to arrange some campus publicity. He had a question.

"Where's Satori?"

"What?" I asked.

"Your lecture is called 'From Satori to Silicon Valley,' " he explained. "I know where Silicon Valley is. But where's Satori?"

"The Zen state of enlightenment ... you never heard of that?"

"Oh. I never took any courses in Oriental religion "

I started to explain the term, spelling out its once obvious connection with the counter culture of the sixties.

"Counter culture," he interrupted. "That's ... hippies. All like that."

Suddenly I felt one hundred years old.

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The Times They Keep A-Changin', Theodore Roszak, 2000Source

When this essay was first written for the Alvin Fine Memorial Lecture at San Francisco State University in April 1985, I was not fully aware of how much the times had already changed since I wrote The Making of a Counter Culture in 1969. But I soon learned. A few weeks before the lecture, a student in the Public Affairs Office at San Francisco State called me to arrange some campus publicity. He had a question.

"Where's Satori?"

"What?" I asked.

"Your lecture is called 'From Satori to Silicon Valley,' " he explained. "I know where Silicon Valley is. But where's Satori?"

"The Zen state of enlightenment ... you never heard of that?"

"Oh. I never took any courses in Oriental religion "

I started to explain the term, spelling out its once obvious connection with the counter culture of the sixties.

"Counter culture," he interrupted. "That's ... hippies. All like that."

Suddenly I felt one hundred years old.

To continue development, the team needed more money. Apple's Strategic Investment Group selected the company for its first investment. One month later, when they announced the software at the Personal Computer Forum in Phoenix, famous Apple CEO John Skully reportedly said "We see desktop presentation as potentially a bigger market for Apple than desktop publishing".

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The History and Evolution of PowerPoint, Pia Lehner-MittermaierSource

On April 20, 1987, the first version of PowerPoint was released. Because we love the software so much (and we know many of you readers do, too!), we wanted to celebrate PowerPoint’s 33rd birthday with a whole article dedicated to its origins, history, and use cases! 95% of presentations are created with PowerPoint, 30 Million PowerPoint presentations are given everyday, and 500 million people all over the world are using the software.

So without further ado, let’s dive into the success story of PowerPoint - with the early beginnings and the development throughout the different versions (except for version 13, which was skipped due to triskaidekaphobia concerns).

Skim through the rest and start over

-Drag and Drop texts and HTML codes
-Drag and Drop HTML elements
-Drag and Drop files

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In HTMLSource

The HTML5 working draft specification includes support for drag and drop.[5] HTML5 supports different kinds of dragging and dropping features including:

This icon is my file. My file is this icon.

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John Sircusa, About the Finder...Source

If Mac OS X has a secret shame, it's the Finder.

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what did peeman pee on?Source

exibition at wkv (public library)

Pull your right earlobe

The Macintosh has from its introduction been viewed-- and among some of its users, cherished-- as a computer that brings (as the 1960s slogan put it) "power to the people." News accounts casting its development team as fearless rebels and advertising describing it as "the computer for the rest of us" projected an image of the Macintosh as a machine for creative types, freethinkers and free spirits.

This connection between computing and anti-authoritarianism was successful in part because it played on an assumption held by many people involved in early personal computing: that the invention of the personal computer owed as much to the counterculture's desire to oppose centralized authority and technology, as it did to the invention of the microprocessor. Many of the early developers of personal computers had strong countercultural credentials. Lee Felsenstein wrote for the East Bay underground newspapers Berkeley Barb and The Tribe while founding Resource One and Community Memory. Stewart Brand was founder of the Whole Earth Catalog and co-founder of the Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link (and later the Electronic Frontier Foundation). The Whole Earth Catalog, in turn, was connected to the Portola Institute, founded by former CDC engineer Robert Albrecht. As inventor Jim Warren put it, the personal computer "had its genetic coding in the 1960s'... antiestablishment, antiwar, profreedom, antidiscipline attitudes." User groups likewise shared some of the philosophical foundations (and problems) of community activist projects and employee-owned businesses.

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Think Different(ly)Source

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The Vectoralist Class - Journal #65 May 2015 - e-fluxSource

Connect a supplier of materials to a site of processing with a vector

Get comfortable

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aec_blank_page.pngSource

a page that is devoid of content and may be unexpected.

Fix your posture

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Adrian Piper by Jeffrey E. EvansSource

1986 Piper’s philosophy article, "Two Conceptions of the Self," voted one of the ten best papers of 1985 by editors of Philosophical Studies. Prepares My Calling (Card) #1 and #2. Begins Vanilla Nightmares drawings on newspaper. Reads Anita Brookner. Moves to Washington, D. C. Separates from husband. Begins permanent position at Georgetown University. Listens to Bach Cantatas.

1987 Piper celebrates Diotima the cat's fifteenth birthday and year together with Piper. Attends inaugural meeting of Women of African Descent in the Visual Arts (WADVA). Gets divorce. Starts teaching Nietzsche in introductory ethics course. Completes Think About It. At Jane Farver’s request, writes up first installment of Personal Chronology for catalogue of twenty-year retrospective, Adrian Piper: Reflections 1967-1987, which opens at the Alternative Museum and travels around the country (through 1991). Meets members of a "white" branch of the Piper family at opening of retrospective in Atlanta, Georgia. Awarded National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipend to complete Kant chapter of Rationality and the Structure of the Self.

http://www.adrianpiper.com/personal_chrono.shtml

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I don't like your ethics

I am writing to inform you that I am trying to take ethical issues into account when choosing what to buy, and that I will be seeking to avoid your company's products from now on.

Although I have used your products in the past, I have since discovered that your company group has been criticised in relation to:

Aggressive marketing
Supply to military
Workers' rights
Political lobbying
Tax avoidance

I will tell my friends about my decision to avoid your products and will encourage them to do the same.

I got my information from Ethical Consumer Research Association.

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I like some of your ethics

I am writing to inform you that I am trying to take ethical issues into account when choosing what to buy, You are making positive steps when it comes to:

Conflict minerals & toxics.
All products are PVC/BFR free.

However, I think you need to go further as I have discovered that your company has been criticised in relation to:

Aggressive marketing
Supply to military
Workers' rights
Political lobbying
Tax avoidance

I like being a customer of yours but I will have to shop elsewhere if you do not improve your ethics.

I got my information from Ethical Consumer Research Association.

Stick out your tongue

Derrida used a Macintosh Plus, a Macintosh Classic, and a Macintosh LC475. Reports also indicate that he owned an Apple PowerBook, an iMac, and possibly other Apple computers. "Even the computer belonging to the 'great writer' or 'great thinker' will be fetishized, like Nietzsche's typewriter," Derrida noted with some dismay (Paper Machine, 29).

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Derrida’s Macintosh | Alexander R. Gall…Source

Derrida used a Macintosh Plus, a Macintosh Classic, and a Macintosh LC475. Reports also indicate that he owned an Apple PowerBook, an iMac, and possibly other Apple computers. "Even the computer belonging to the 'great writer' or 'great thinker' will be fetishized, like Nietzsche's typewriter," Derrida noted with some dismay (Paper Machine, 29).

It tasted just like...Folgers. Stale. Lifeless. Petrified dinosaur droppings steeped in bathtub water. I couldn't finish it.

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Kopi Luwak, WikipediaSource

It tasted just like...Folgers. Stale. Lifeless. Petrified dinosaur droppings steeped in bathtub water. I couldn't finish it.

Grin

DMT Waiting Rooms contain entities that at times do interact directly with you.

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The Hyperbolic Geometry of DMT Experiences, Andrés Gómez-Emilsson, 2016Source

DMT entities come in many forms, and their overall quality is extremely dosedependent. Rather than describing any specific manifestation we will instead briefly characterize the rough properties of the entities experienced based on the level reached.

Threshold: Usually the ambiance change has a social feel to is. More similar to entering a room of people of an alien culture, than entering an empty cave or a warm pool on your own. In this sense the very beginning of a DMT experience may already frame the experience in social terms and facilitate the expectation of meeting entities.

Chrysanthemum: One can feel perhaps the subtle presence of entities, but they are often interpreted as “feeling connected” to one’s friends, relatives and acquaintances. The feeling does not manifest in any clear spatial way, though. Other than that, this state is apersonal in the sense that one does not see any entity directly.

Magic Eye: Here the entities can be roughly described as having an impersonal relationship with you. They are just there, hanging out on their own, often engrossed with whatever activities your world-sheet is capable of representing for them.
Waiting Room: At this level entities start becoming able to interact with you. They feel like autonomous beings wrapped in mystery. Their intentions, what they know, and their emotional states can be guessed from their behavior, but they are not immediately obvious.

Breakthrough: At this level the entities one meets seem to have what we might call a transpersonal relationship with you. They share their own internal states (emotions, knowledge, wishes, etc) with you. It feels like they can communicate telepathically and “see through” you. One cannot hide one’s “private” mental contents from them at this level.

Amnesia: One cannot remember, of course, exactly what happens here. But if trip reports are any indication, this level is reminiscent of highly “mystical” states in which one’s implicit beliefs about Personal Identity[29] are obliterated and replaced by the feeling of becoming an all-encompassing entity. “Union with God” and “Samadhi[30]” are terms that describe the subjective feeling of self in this state. In other words, at this level it is impossible to distinguish between oneself and other entities, for all is represented as one. (Beware of never trying to go here if you feel bad at the time since negative hedonic tone can be amplified just as much as a good feeling such as Samadhi).

Grin

Kopi luwak is a coffee that consists of partially digested coffee cherries, which have been eaten and defecated by the Asian palm civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus). It is also called civet coffee. The cherries are fermented as they pass through a civet's intestines, and after being defecated with other fecal matter, they are collected.

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Kopi Luvak, WikipediaSource

Kopi luwak is a coffee that consists of partially digested coffee cherries, which have been eaten and defecated by the Asian palm civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus). It is also called civet coffee. The cherries are fermented as they pass through a civet's intestines, and after being defecated with other fecal matter, they are collected.

clench

Brooklyn-based food startup Afineur has also developed a patented fermentation technology that reproduces some of the taste aspects of Kopi Luwak while improving coffee bean taste and nutritional profile.

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Kopi Luwak, WikipediaSource

Brooklyn-based food startup Afineur has also developed a patented fermentation technology that reproduces some of the taste aspects of Kopi Luwak while improving coffee bean taste and nutritional profile.

They wanted to create a system where the individual is the focus, and rebel against the strict gridof corridors and desks with something organic and natural. Their approach was called Bürolandschaft, a German term that translates to “office landscape”.

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Bürolandschaft | Wikipedia

They wanted to create a system where the individual is the focus, and rebel against the strict gridof corridors and desks with something organic and natural. Their approach was called Bürolandschaft, a German term that translates to “office landscape”.

raise your eyebrows

we need to preserve spaces where we can sit in the quiet…

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Shy radicals | openDemocracySource

we need to preserve spaces where we can sit in the quiet…

DMT Waiting Rooms contain entities that at times do interact directly with you.

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The Hyperbolic Geometry of DMT Experiences, Andrés Gómez-Emilsson, 2016Source

DMT entities come in many forms, and their overall quality is extremely dosedependent. Rather than describing any specific manifestation we will instead briefly characterize the rough properties of the entities experienced based on the level reached.

Threshold: Usually the ambiance change has a social feel to is. More similar to entering a room of people of an alien culture, than entering an empty cave or a warm pool on your own. In this sense the very beginning of a DMT experience may already frame the experience in social terms and facilitate the expectation of meeting entities.

Chrysanthemum: One can feel perhaps the subtle presence of entities, but they are often interpreted as “feeling connected” to one’s friends, relatives and acquaintances. The feeling does not manifest in any clear spatial way, though. Other than that, this state is apersonal in the sense that one does not see any entity directly.

Magic Eye: Here the entities can be roughly described as having an impersonal relationship with you. They are just there, hanging out on their own, often engrossed with whatever activities your world-sheet is capable of representing for them.
Waiting Room: At this level entities start becoming able to interact with you. They feel like autonomous beings wrapped in mystery. Their intentions, what they know, and their emotional states can be guessed from their behavior, but they are not immediately obvious.

Breakthrough: At this level the entities one meets seem to have what we might call a transpersonal relationship with you. They share their own internal states (emotions, knowledge, wishes, etc) with you. It feels like they can communicate telepathically and “see through” you. One cannot hide one’s “private” mental contents from them at this level.

Amnesia: One cannot remember, of course, exactly what happens here. But if trip reports are any indication, this level is reminiscent of highly “mystical” states in which one’s implicit beliefs about Personal Identity[29] are obliterated and replaced by the feeling of becoming an all-encompassing entity. “Union with God” and “Samadhi[30]” are terms that describe the subjective feeling of self in this state. In other words, at this level it is impossible to distinguish between oneself and other entities, for all is represented as one. (Beware of never trying to go here if you feel bad at the time since negative hedonic tone can be amplified just as much as a good feeling such as Samadhi).

Change your posture

Paul, a start-up founder in New York, says he and his employees are less stressed since they started microdosing. But he couldn’t be absolutely sure about the cause and effect: he thinks it may have also been the project-management app Asana, which they started using at the same time, to keep organised.

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“How Silicon Valley rediscovered LSD” (or, Asana)Source

Paul, a start-up founder in New York, says he and his employees are less stressed since they started microdosing. But he couldn’t be absolutely sure about the cause and effect: he thinks it may have also been the project-management app Asana, which they started using at the same time, to keep organised.

Lick your finger and turn the page

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“How Silicon Valley rediscovered LSD” (or, Asana) - Team Onboarding - Asana Community ForumSource

Paul, a start-up founder in New York, says he and his employees are less stressed since they started microdosing. But he couldn’t be absolutely sure about the cause and effect: he thinks it may have also been the project-management app Asana, which they started using at the same time, to keep organised.

wrinkle your nose

A drug is any chemical substance that causes a change in an organism's physiology or psychology when consumed.

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Drug, WikipediaSource

A drug is any chemical substance that causes a change in an organism's physiology or psychology when consumed.[1][2] Drugs are typically distinguished from food and substances that provide nutritional support. Consumption of drugs can be via inhalation, injection, smoking, ingestion, absorption via a patch on the skin, suppository, or dissolution under the tongue.

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tuxdoc.com_peter-thiel-good-pitch-deck-example.pdf

an example of a good pitch deck by Peter Thiel

SOMA - A Revolution In Weight Loss
01 - The Scale-o-Mata
02 - The SOMA Team
03 - The Product
04 - The Market – Large And Growing Potential User Base
05 - The Market – Opportunity And Competition
06 - Barriers To Entry & Exit / Sales Plan
07 - Funding History & Use of Proceeds
08 - Future Prospects & Vision - our product becomes a company
09 - Contact
10 - Financial Model and Assumptions

Lick your finger and turn the page

Food is any substance consumed to provide nutritional support for an organism.

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Food, WikipediaSource

Food is any substance consumed to provide nutritional support for an organism. Food is usually of plant, animal, or fungal origin, and contains essential nutrients, such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, or minerals. The substance is ingested by an organism and assimilated by the organism's cells to provide energy, maintain life, or stimulate growth.

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th?id=oip.7ioospbkkhwmnzdcyiqhhahaff-pid=api-f=1Source

DO NOT DRINK THE COFFEE - FUTURE DWIGHT

Rub your right eye

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th?id=oip.qdeiy462yau2zbbildcjpghagm-pid=api-f=1Source

YOU’RE
Awesome
KEEP THAT
SHIT UP

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th?id=oip.l-5p9m9f8jjwx6qldsb9twhaha-pid=api-f=1Source

If you are
agitated & confused
my work here
is done

Rest your head on your arm

The tech world has a fascination with what they call "biohacking" or experimenting with your environment and diet in order to gain control of your biology. Though, the rest of the world might just call this "wellness" or "healthy habits." Along with bulletproof coffee and intermittent fasting, two popular "bio hacks," many Silicon Valley dwellers have taken to eating a diet of one specific food all the time.

Despite her grueling self-inflicted work schedule, Holmes never drank coffee, although she occasionally would eat chocolate-coated coffee beans for energy. Instead, she ran on a green juice blend of spinach, parsley, wheatgrass, celery, and cucumber.

Famously, she only wore black turtlenecks, black pants, and a black jacket as a way to simplify her routine.

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Elizabeth Holmes' Very Particular Green Juice Diet, ExplainedSource

The tech world has a fascination with what they call "biohacking" or experimenting with your environment and diet in order to gain control of your biology. Though, the rest of the world might just call this "wellness" or "healthy habits." Along with bulletproof coffee and intermittent fasting, two popular "bio hacks," many Silicon Valley dwellers have taken to eating a diet of one specific food all the time.

Tech bros are drawn to Soylent, the soy-based meal substitute, because downing a bottle is faster than eating real food. Steve Jobs famously ate an all-fruit diet. Similarly, Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced founder of the biotech company Theranos and longtime fan of Jobs, also had a very specific diet consisting of green juice and bland salads.

Holmes's rationale for her unusual diet was also driven by her utilitarian, workaholic tendencies. Early on in her career, Holmes adopted a vegan diet, because she found that staying off animal products allowed her to work later without sleep, according to a 2015 Inc. story. She worked 16 hours a day, seven days a week, and allegedly slept four hours a night. And working long hours was simly part of Theranos's toxic company culture; security detail would clock when people entered and exited the building, and Holmes would question people who didn't want to work over the weekends.

Despite her grueling self-inflicted work schedule, Holmes never drank coffee, although she occasionally would eat chocolate-coated coffee beans for energy. Instead, she ran on a green juice blend of spinach, parsley, wheatgrass, celery, and cucumber. In John Carreyrou's book, Bad Blood, he writes that Holmes had a personal chef who made her salads and green juice throughout the day. A 2014 Fortune profile about Holmes described her typical dinner as "spartan": mixed salad with no dressing and oil-free spaghetti with tomatoes.

While we don't know exactly what drove Holmes's particular — and oft-publicized — diet, her quirks mirror her attitude toward clothing. Famously, she only wore black turtlenecks, black pants, and a black jacket as a way to simplify her routine.

rotate your right ankle

90% of the world's adults consume some form of caffeine everyday, making it the most widely used psychoactive drug on Earth. Michael Pollan, author of "This Is Your Mind On Plants," explains why. Michael goes into the history of coffee drinking, breaking down its origins and how it benefits humankind.

"For more on caffeine and psychopharmacology, read Michael Pollan's latest book THIS IS YOUR MIND ON PLANTS:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/bo..."
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How Caffeine Addiction Changed History (ft. Michael Pollan) | WIREDSource

90% of the world's adults consume some form of caffeine everyday, making it the most widely used psychoactive drug on Earth. Michael Pollan, author of "This Is Your Mind On Plants," explains why. Michael goes into the history of coffee drinking, breaking down its origins and how it benefits humankind.

"For more on caffeine and psychopharmacology, read Michael Pollan's latest book THIS IS YOUR MIND ON PLANTS:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/bo..."
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Kopi luwak is a coffee that consists of partially digested coffee cherries, which have been eaten and defecated by the Asian palm civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus). It is also called civet coffee. The cherries are fermented as they pass through a civet's intestines, and after being defecated with other fecal matter, they are collected.

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Kopi Luvak, WikipediaSource

Kopi luwak is a coffee that consists of partially digested coffee cherries, which have been eaten and defecated by the Asian palm civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus). It is also called civet coffee. The cherries are fermented as they pass through a civet's intestines, and after being defecated with other fecal matter, they are collected.

It tasted just like...Folgers. Stale. Lifeless. Petrified dinosaur droppings steeped in bathtub water. I couldn't finish it.

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Kopi Luwak, WikipediaSource

It tasted just like...Folgers. Stale. Lifeless. Petrified dinosaur droppings steeped in bathtub water. I couldn't finish it.

Brooklyn-based food startup Afineur has also developed a patented fermentation technology that reproduces some of the taste aspects of Kopi Luwak while improving coffee bean taste and nutritional profile.

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Kopi Luwak, WikipediaSource

Brooklyn-based food startup Afineur has also developed a patented fermentation technology that reproduces some of the taste aspects of Kopi Luwak while improving coffee bean taste and nutritional profile.

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The Cult of the Bulletproof Coffee Diet | Hacker NewsSource

I’m wondering if there is real strong evidence, other than anecdotal accounts, for the wonderful claims that are made for the quasi-magical properties of that coffee melange.I get it that under extreme physical circumstances (high in the Tibetan mountains) coffee mixed with butter can be a good way…

Tilt your head to the left

“It’s the only drug where you’re consuming a piece of graphic design,” co-curator Justin McQuirk joked.

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The Dream of Californian DesignSource

“It’s the only drug where you’re consuming a piece of graphic design,” co-curator Justin McQuirk joked.

Tilt your head to the right

Apple Regulated Substances Specification
069-0135-L

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Scratch your head

Oral administration is a route of administration where a substance is taken through the mouth.

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Oral Administration, WikipediaSource

Oral administration is a route of administration where a substance is taken through the mouth.

DMT Waiting Rooms contain entities that at times do interact directly with you.

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The Hyperbolic Geometry of DMT Experiences, Andrés Gómez-Emilsson, 2016Source

DMT entities come in many forms, and their overall quality is extremely dosedependent. Rather than describing any specific manifestation we will instead briefly characterize the rough properties of the entities experienced based on the level reached.

Threshold: Usually the ambiance change has a social feel to is. More similar to entering a room of people of an alien culture, than entering an empty cave or a warm pool on your own. In this sense the very beginning of a DMT experience may already frame the experience in social terms and facilitate the expectation of meeting entities.

Chrysanthemum: One can feel perhaps the subtle presence of entities, but they are often interpreted as “feeling connected” to one’s friends, relatives and acquaintances. The feeling does not manifest in any clear spatial way, though. Other than that, this state is apersonal in the sense that one does not see any entity directly.

Magic Eye: Here the entities can be roughly described as having an impersonal relationship with you. They are just there, hanging out on their own, often engrossed with whatever activities your world-sheet is capable of representing for them.
Waiting Room: At this level entities start becoming able to interact with you. They feel like autonomous beings wrapped in mystery. Their intentions, what they know, and their emotional states can be guessed from their behavior, but they are not immediately obvious.

Breakthrough: At this level the entities one meets seem to have what we might call a transpersonal relationship with you. They share their own internal states (emotions, knowledge, wishes, etc) with you. It feels like they can communicate telepathically and “see through” you. One cannot hide one’s “private” mental contents from them at this level.

Amnesia: One cannot remember, of course, exactly what happens here. But if trip reports are any indication, this level is reminiscent of highly “mystical” states in which one’s implicit beliefs about Personal Identity[29] are obliterated and replaced by the feeling of becoming an all-encompassing entity. “Union with God” and “Samadhi[30]” are terms that describe the subjective feeling of self in this state. In other words, at this level it is impossible to distinguish between oneself and other entities, for all is represented as one. (Beware of never trying to go here if you feel bad at the time since negative hedonic tone can be amplified just as much as a good feeling such as Samadhi).

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GE-GENIGRAPHICS ART SOCIETY - Celebrating the original computer-generated slide service from GESource

The major goals of the GE-Genigraphics Art Society is to preserve, document and celebrate the achievements of the original GE-created Genigraphics Corporation, the early, influential computer graphics company, in business from 1973 to 1994.

THIS SITE IS DEDICATED TO ALL THE GRAPHIC ARTISTS, ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES, ENGINEERS, PROGRAMMERS, SALES REPS, BOOKKEEPERS, MANAGERS, AND OTHER EMPLOYEES WHO WORKED AT THE ORIGINAL, GENERAL ELECTRIC-CREATED GENIGRAPHICS CORPORATION (1973-1994) WHOSE EFFORTS HELPED FORGE A NEW INDUSTRY .

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I have this question too (24)Source

The "Shapes" menu in Keynote has a limited set of graphics. Is there a site or an add-on which provides additional library of shapes and graphics

Mac Book Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.1)
Posted on Nov 2, 2009 1:56 AM

This icon is my file. My file is this icon.

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John Sircusa, About the Finder...Source

If Mac OS X has a secret shame, it's the Finder.

Stand up if you sit

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Source

It was so random,” Fike told i-D. “Not thought out at all. Same day, I was like, ‘I’m going to get this.’ Respectable girls don’t hate me. I like it. And Apple just sent me the new iPhone, the 13.

https://hypebae.com/2022/3/dominic-fike-euphoria-face-tattoos-meaning-apple-lbe

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▋▅▉▝▊ || beyond resolutionSource

Refuse to let the syntaxes of history direct our futures Beyond Resolution and the iRD focus on noise artifacts that result from accidents in both analogue and digital media. These artifacts can facilitate an important insight into the otherwise obscure alchemy of standardization via resolutions. Th…

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michele-serres-the-parasite-logic-oof-the-fuzzy-56-57.jpg

In mathematics, fuzzy sets (a.k.a. uncertain sets) are sets whose elements have degrees of membership.

scratch your ear

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what did peeman pee on?Source

exibition at wkv (public library)

When this essay was first written for the Alvin Fine Memorial Lecture at San Francisco State University in April 1985, I was not fully aware of how much the times had already changed since I wrote The Making of a Counter Culture in 1969. But I soon learned. A few weeks before the lecture, a student in the Public Affairs Office at San Francisco State called me to arrange some campus publicity. He had a question.

"Where's Satori?"

"What?" I asked.

"Your lecture is called 'From Satori to Silicon Valley,' " he explained. "I know where Silicon Valley is. But where's Satori?"

"The Zen state of enlightenment ... you never heard of that?"

"Oh. I never took any courses in Oriental religion "

I started to explain the term, spelling out its once obvious connection with the counter culture of the sixties.

"Counter culture," he interrupted. "That's ... hippies. All like that."

Suddenly I felt one hundred years old.

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The Times They Keep A-Changin', Theodore Roszak, 2000Source

When this essay was first written for the Alvin Fine Memorial Lecture at San Francisco State University in April 1985, I was not fully aware of how much the times had already changed since I wrote The Making of a Counter Culture in 1969. But I soon learned. A few weeks before the lecture, a student in the Public Affairs Office at San Francisco State called me to arrange some campus publicity. He had a question.

"Where's Satori?"

"What?" I asked.

"Your lecture is called 'From Satori to Silicon Valley,' " he explained. "I know where Silicon Valley is. But where's Satori?"

"The Zen state of enlightenment ... you never heard of that?"

"Oh. I never took any courses in Oriental religion "

I started to explain the term, spelling out its once obvious connection with the counter culture of the sixties.

"Counter culture," he interrupted. "That's ... hippies. All like that."

Suddenly I felt one hundred years old.

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Mondothèque: Pantothèque - Mundaneum - (Documentothèque), 8 Jun 1936, 64 x 67 cm. Reproduction at Mundaneum center. Source

Paul Marie Ghislain Otlet (1868–1944) was a Belgian author, entrepreneur, visionary, lawyer and peace activist. He is one of the founders of information science, a field he called "documentation". Otlet created the Universal Decimal Classification, one of the most prominent examples of faceted classification.

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isotype_family.pngSource

Visual education was always the prime motive behind ISOTYPE. It was not intended to replace verbal language, rather it was a “helping language” accompanied by verbal elements. Neurath was deeply convinced that his "world language without words" would not only enhance education but facilitate international understanding.

Rub your right eye

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Google Deck on Digital Wellbeing 'A Call to Minimize Distraction and Respect Users' Attention'Source

The original 2013 Google Deck that evolved into Google's Digital Wellbeing initiative in 2018 (including Android 9 (Pie)) by Tristan Harris - who went on to lead humanetech.com. Great technology should improve life, not distract from it

I want to challenge correctness and present alternatives… Instead of doing all that assertiveness training, it will be good if extroverts could be trained to listen more and be more quiet…

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Shy radicals | openDemocracySource

I want to challenge correctness and present alternatives… Instead of doing all that assertiveness training, it will be good if extroverts could be trained to listen more and be more quiet…

Clear your throat

“This is what it looks like,” I thought. An ideal was realized if only temporarily.

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Two People, Emma Stamm, Turn On, Tune In, Rise UpSource

Although formal meetings openly embrace Acid Communism, its truths might always be more evident at the after-parties. While I missed the lectures at Horizons 2013, I’ve since attended a number of other psychedelic conferences. More often than not, the formal lectures are less interesting than the conversations that ensue. While it’s too much to expand on medicine, culture and politics in a single talk, the disciplinary orthodoxy that guides conference lectures doesn’t apply to casual conversation. [a pattern emerged]. Many people see their psychedelic and political commitments as intertwined, refusing to reduce one to the other.

This brings me back to my story about Horizons. Following the benefactor dinner, there was an dance party. People were welcome even if they hadn’t gone to the conference, and the ticket price was affordable. As my friend and I made our way through the crowd, something stuck out: people seemed elated. They were unselfconsciously giddy in a way I rarely encountered at a typical bar. Of course, for some, this was the result of a little chemical assistance. But I was sober the aura was infectious anyway. It helped me set aside my bitterness from earlier hours and enjoy my company. I ended up talking to a man who’d brought his children along. When I asked him if he was worried about the party’s possible bad influences, he replied that this was
the most wholesome thing they’d seen all week. What they encountered at school, he observed, was far less uplifting. There was no argument there. Despite the reason for the occasion, the feeling of inclusiveness made psychedelics seem incidental. People were what mattered, not chemical compounds.

“This is what it looks like,” I thought. An ideal was realized if only temporarily.

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Adrian Piper by Jeffrey E. EvansSource

1986 Piper’s philosophy article, "Two Conceptions of the Self," voted one of the ten best papers of 1985 by editors of Philosophical Studies. Prepares My Calling (Card) #1 and #2. Begins Vanilla Nightmares drawings on newspaper. Reads Anita Brookner. Moves to Washington, D. C. Separates from husband. Begins permanent position at Georgetown University. Listens to Bach Cantatas.

1987 Piper celebrates Diotima the cat's fifteenth birthday and year together with Piper. Attends inaugural meeting of Women of African Descent in the Visual Arts (WADVA). Gets divorce. Starts teaching Nietzsche in introductory ethics course. Completes Think About It. At Jane Farver’s request, writes up first installment of Personal Chronology for catalogue of twenty-year retrospective, Adrian Piper: Reflections 1967-1987, which opens at the Alternative Museum and travels around the country (through 1991). Meets members of a "white" branch of the Piper family at opening of retrospective in Atlanta, Georgia. Awarded National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipend to complete Kant chapter of Rationality and the Structure of the Self.

http://www.adrianpiper.com/personal_chrono.shtml

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After the Party: A Manifesto for Queer of Color Life on JSTORSource

4 Eiko’s Entanglements
(pp. 164-196)

You and I are in a cab riding through afternoon traffic in downtown Philadelphia. There’s a light drizzle outside; everything is gray. I press my forehead into the glass to watch the buildings through the window as we talk. We’re running fifteen to thirty minutes late, but we’re not hurried, because this is the kind of performance for which you can come and go. I admit to you that in spite of the fact that I profess to be a professor of performance studies, I don’t always sit all the way through durational performances. I mention this because we are...

Save | Cite

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“How Silicon Valley rediscovered LSD” (or, Asana) - Team Onboarding - Asana Community ForumSource

Paul, a start-up founder in New York, says he and his employees are less stressed since they started microdosing. But he couldn’t be absolutely sure about the cause and effect: he thinks it may have also been the project-management app Asana, which they started using at the same time, to keep organised.

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iwork.com_logo.pngSource

iWork.com beta

stare at your feet

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Mondothèque: Pantothèque - Mundaneum - (Documentothèque), 8 Jun 1936, 64 x 67 cm. Reproduction at Mundaneum center. Source

Paul Marie Ghislain Otlet (1868–1944) was a Belgian author, entrepreneur, visionary, lawyer and peace activist. He is one of the founders of information science, a field he called "documentation". Otlet created the Universal Decimal Classification, one of the most prominent examples of faceted classification.

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GE-GENIGRAPHICS ART SOCIETY - Celebrating the original computer-generated slide service from GESource

The major goals of the GE-Genigraphics Art Society is to preserve, document and celebrate the achievements of the original GE-created Genigraphics Corporation, the early, influential computer graphics company, in business from 1973 to 1994.

THIS SITE IS DEDICATED TO ALL THE GRAPHIC ARTISTS, ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES, ENGINEERS, PROGRAMMERS, SALES REPS, BOOKKEEPERS, MANAGERS, AND OTHER EMPLOYEES WHO WORKED AT THE ORIGINAL, GENERAL ELECTRIC-CREATED GENIGRAPHICS CORPORATION (1973-1994) WHOSE EFFORTS HELPED FORGE A NEW INDUSTRY .

Squint your eyes

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Source

It was so random,” Fike told i-D. “Not thought out at all. Same day, I was like, ‘I’m going to get this.’ Respectable girls don’t hate me. I like it. And Apple just sent me the new iPhone, the 13.

https://hypebae.com/2022/3/dominic-fike-euphoria-face-tattoos-meaning-apple-lbe

Crack your knuckles

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what did peeman pee on?Source

exibition at wkv (public library)

Mark something unimportant

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787527529-hoffman_letter_to_steve_jobs.pngSource

The tech world has a fascination with what they call "biohacking" or experimenting with your environment and diet in order to gain control of your biology. Though, the rest of the world might just call this "wellness" or "healthy habits." Along with bulletproof coffee and intermittent fasting, two popular "bio hacks," many Silicon Valley dwellers have taken to eating a diet of one specific food all the time.

Despite her grueling self-inflicted work schedule, Holmes never drank coffee, although she occasionally would eat chocolate-coated coffee beans for energy. Instead, she ran on a green juice blend of spinach, parsley, wheatgrass, celery, and cucumber.

Famously, she only wore black turtlenecks, black pants, and a black jacket as a way to simplify her routine.

16159307

Elizabeth Holmes' Very Particular Green Juice Diet, ExplainedSource

The tech world has a fascination with what they call "biohacking" or experimenting with your environment and diet in order to gain control of your biology. Though, the rest of the world might just call this "wellness" or "healthy habits." Along with bulletproof coffee and intermittent fasting, two popular "bio hacks," many Silicon Valley dwellers have taken to eating a diet of one specific food all the time.

Tech bros are drawn to Soylent, the soy-based meal substitute, because downing a bottle is faster than eating real food. Steve Jobs famously ate an all-fruit diet. Similarly, Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced founder of the biotech company Theranos and longtime fan of Jobs, also had a very specific diet consisting of green juice and bland salads.

Holmes's rationale for her unusual diet was also driven by her utilitarian, workaholic tendencies. Early on in her career, Holmes adopted a vegan diet, because she found that staying off animal products allowed her to work later without sleep, according to a 2015 Inc. story. She worked 16 hours a day, seven days a week, and allegedly slept four hours a night. And working long hours was simly part of Theranos's toxic company culture; security detail would clock when people entered and exited the building, and Holmes would question people who didn't want to work over the weekends.

Despite her grueling self-inflicted work schedule, Holmes never drank coffee, although she occasionally would eat chocolate-coated coffee beans for energy. Instead, she ran on a green juice blend of spinach, parsley, wheatgrass, celery, and cucumber. In John Carreyrou's book, Bad Blood, he writes that Holmes had a personal chef who made her salads and green juice throughout the day. A 2014 Fortune profile about Holmes described her typical dinner as "spartan": mixed salad with no dressing and oil-free spaghetti with tomatoes.

While we don't know exactly what drove Holmes's particular — and oft-publicized — diet, her quirks mirror her attitude toward clothing. Famously, she only wore black turtlenecks, black pants, and a black jacket as a way to simplify her routine.

Dear Mr. Steve Jobs,

Hello from Albert Hofmann. I understand from media accounts that you feel LSD helped you creatively in your development of Apple computers and your personal spiritual quest. I’m interested in learning more about how LSD was useful to you.

I’m writing now, shortly after my 101st birthday, to request that you support Swiss psychiatrist Dr. Peter Gasser’s proposed study of LSD-assisted psychotherapy in subjects with anxiety associated with life-threatening illness. This will become the first LSD-assisted psychotherapy study in over 35 years.

I hope you will help in the transformation of my problem child into a wonder child.

Sincerely,
A. Hofmann

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Dear Mr. Steve Jobs,

Dear Mr. Steve Jobs,

Hello from Albert Hofmann. I understand from media accounts that you feel LSD helped you creatively in your development of Apple computers and your personal spiritual quest. I’m interested in learning more about how LSD was useful to you.

I’m writing now, shortly after my 101st birthday, to request that you support Swiss psychiatrist Dr. Peter Gasser’s proposed study of LSD-assisted psychotherapy in subjects with anxiety associated with life-threatening illness. This will become the first LSD-assisted psychotherapy study in over 35 years.

I hope you will help in the transformation of my problem child into a wonder child.

Sincerely,
A. Hofmann

Derrida used a Macintosh Plus, a Macintosh Classic, and a Macintosh LC475. Reports also indicate that he owned an Apple PowerBook, an iMac, and possibly other Apple computers. "Even the computer belonging to the 'great writer' or 'great thinker' will be fetishized, like Nietzsche's typewriter," Derrida noted with some dismay (Paper Machine, 29).

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Derrida’s Macintosh | Alexander R. Gall…Source

Derrida used a Macintosh Plus, a Macintosh Classic, and a Macintosh LC475. Reports also indicate that he owned an Apple PowerBook, an iMac, and possibly other Apple computers. "Even the computer belonging to the 'great writer' or 'great thinker' will be fetishized, like Nietzsche's typewriter," Derrida noted with some dismay (Paper Machine, 29).

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ste-jobs-trip.jpgSource

I want to challenge correctness and present alternatives… Instead of doing all that assertiveness training, it will be good if extroverts could be trained to listen more and be more quiet…

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Shy radicals | openDemocracySource

I want to challenge correctness and present alternatives… Instead of doing all that assertiveness training, it will be good if extroverts could be trained to listen more and be more quiet…

fidget

As bureaucratic corporations gave way to liberated firms, project-oriented, =entrepreneurial extroverts= became the favored kind of employee.

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“One Damn Slide After Another”: PowerPoint at Every Occasion for SpeechSource

As bureaucratic corporations gave way to liberated firms, project-oriented, entrepreneurial extroverts became the favored kind of employee.

pull up your sleeve

„Instead of giving a speech, Kaprow simply sat on the stage.“

Auszug aus
The Democratic Surround: Multimedia & American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties
Fred Turner
Dieses Material ist möglicherweise urheberrechtlich geschützt.

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Giving a Speech

„Instead of giving a speech, Kaprow simply sat on the stage.“

Auszug aus
The Democratic Surround: Multimedia & American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties
Fred Turner
Dieses Material ist möglicherweise urheberrechtlich geschützt.

As bureaucratic corporations gave way to liberated firms, project-oriented, entrepreneurial extroverts became the favored kind of employee.

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“One Damn Slide After Another”: PowerPoint at Every Occasion for SpeechSource

As bureaucratic corporations gave way to liberated firms, project-oriented, entrepreneurial extroverts became the favored kind of employee.

make eye contact

“This is what it looks like,” I thought. An ideal was realized if only temporarily.

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Two People, Emma Stamm, Turn On, Tune In, Rise UpSource

Although formal meetings openly embrace Acid Communism, its truths might always be more evident at the after-parties. While I missed the lectures at Horizons 2013, I’ve since attended a number of other psychedelic conferences. More often than not, the formal lectures are less interesting than the conversations that ensue. While it’s too much to expand on medicine, culture and politics in a single talk, the disciplinary orthodoxy that guides conference lectures doesn’t apply to casual conversation. [a pattern emerged]. Many people see their psychedelic and political commitments as intertwined, refusing to reduce one to the other.

This brings me back to my story about Horizons. Following the benefactor dinner, there was an dance party. People were welcome even if they hadn’t gone to the conference, and the ticket price was affordable. As my friend and I made our way through the crowd, something stuck out: people seemed elated. They were unselfconsciously giddy in a way I rarely encountered at a typical bar. Of course, for some, this was the result of a little chemical assistance. But I was sober the aura was infectious anyway. It helped me set aside my bitterness from earlier hours and enjoy my company. I ended up talking to a man who’d brought his children along. When I asked him if he was worried about the party’s possible bad influences, he replied that this was
the most wholesome thing they’d seen all week. What they encountered at school, he observed, was far less uplifting. There was no argument there. Despite the reason for the occasion, the feeling of inclusiveness made psychedelics seem incidental. People were what mattered, not chemical compounds.

“This is what it looks like,” I thought. An ideal was realized if only temporarily.

Frown

13759357

After the Party: A Manifesto for Queer of Color Life on JSTORSource

4 Eiko’s Entanglements
(pp. 164-196)

You and I are in a cab riding through afternoon traffic in downtown Philadelphia. There’s a light drizzle outside; everything is gray. I press my forehead into the glass to watch the buildings through the window as we talk. We’re running fifteen to thirty minutes late, but we’re not hurried, because this is the kind of performance for which you can come and go. I admit to you that in spite of the fact that I profess to be a professor of performance studies, I don’t always sit all the way through durational performances. I mention this because we are...

Save | Cite

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The Secret Life Of The OfficeSource

Today, over 50% of jobs are in offices, but 160 years ago the figure was only 1%, and the only office workers were 'Dickensian' clerks. They had considerable status and freedom to organise their work, and kept financial ledgers, but there were no forms, memos, reports, etc.

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GE-GENIGRAPHICS ART SOCIETY - Celebrating the original computer-generated slide service from GESource

The major goals of the GE-Genigraphics Art Society is to preserve, document and celebrate the achievements of the original GE-created Genigraphics Corporation, the early, influential computer graphics company, in business from 1973 to 1994.

THIS SITE IS DEDICATED TO ALL THE GRAPHIC ARTISTS, ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES, ENGINEERS, PROGRAMMERS, SALES REPS, BOOKKEEPERS, MANAGERS, AND OTHER EMPLOYEES WHO WORKED AT THE ORIGINAL, GENERAL ELECTRIC-CREATED GENIGRAPHICS CORPORATION (1973-1994) WHOSE EFFORTS HELPED FORGE A NEW INDUSTRY .

The Macintosh has from its introduction been viewed-- and among some of its users, cherished-- as a computer that brings (as the 1960s slogan put it) "power to the people." News accounts casting its development team as fearless rebels and advertising describing it as "the computer for the rest of us" projected an image of the Macintosh as a machine for creative types, freethinkers and free spirits.

This connection between computing and anti-authoritarianism was successful in part because it played on an assumption held by many people involved in early personal computing: that the invention of the personal computer owed as much to the counterculture's desire to oppose centralized authority and technology, as it did to the invention of the microprocessor. Many of the early developers of personal computers had strong countercultural credentials. Lee Felsenstein wrote for the East Bay underground newspapers Berkeley Barb and The Tribe while founding Resource One and Community Memory. Stewart Brand was founder of the Whole Earth Catalog and co-founder of the Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link (and later the Electronic Frontier Foundation). The Whole Earth Catalog, in turn, was connected to the Portola Institute, founded by former CDC engineer Robert Albrecht. As inventor Jim Warren put it, the personal computer "had its genetic coding in the 1960s'... antiestablishment, antiwar, profreedom, antidiscipline attitudes." User groups likewise shared some of the philosophical foundations (and problems) of community activist projects and employee-owned businesses.

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Think Different(ly)Source

look up to the ceiling for 5 seconds

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The Vectoralist Class - Journal #65 May 2015 - e-fluxSource

Connect a supplier of materials to a site of processing with a vector

Annotate with an arrow

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Man or Astroman? - A spectrum of infinite scale [Full Album]Source

The band plays an ImageWriter II on the eleventh song, "A Simple Text File."

"Pathway to the Infinite"
"Song of the Two-Mile Linear Particle Accelerator" Stanford University, Stanford California
"Preparation Clont"
"Curious Constructs of Stem-Like Devices Which Now Prepare Themselves to Be Thought of as Fingers"
"Um Espectro Sem Escala"
"Many Pieces of Large Fuzzy Mammals Gathered Together at a Rave and Schmoozing with a Brick"
"Trapezoid"
"Very Subtle Elevators"
"Within One Universe There Are Millions"
"Spectrograph Reading of the Varying Phantom Frequencies of Chronic, Incurable Tinnitus"
"A Simple Text File"
"Obligatory Part 2 Song in Which There Is No Presently Existing Part 1, Nor the Plans to Make One"
"Multi-Variational Stimuli of Sub-Turgid Foci Covering Cross Evaluative Techniques for Cognitive Analysis of Hypersignificant Graph Peaks Following Those Intersubjective Modules Having Biodegradable Seepage"

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▋▅▉▝▊ || beyond resolutionSource

Refuse to let the syntaxes of history direct our futures Beyond Resolution and the iRD focus on noise artifacts that result from accidents in both analogue and digital media. These artifacts can facilitate an important insight into the otherwise obscure alchemy of standardization via resolutions. Th…

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aec_blank_page.pngSource

a page that is devoid of content and may be unexpected.

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The Secret Life Of The OfficeSource

Today, over 50% of jobs are in offices, but 160 years ago the figure was only 1%, and the only office workers were 'Dickensian' clerks. They had considerable status and freedom to organise their work, and kept financial ledgers, but there were no forms, memos, reports, etc.

Skim through the rest and start over

The brain can't do two things at once

Pichai and Google's slide designers are creating brain-friendly presentations. Cognitive scientists say it's impossible for us to multitask as well as we think we can. The brain cannot do two things at once and do them equally well. When it comes to presentation design, we can't read text on the screen and listen to the speaker while retaining all of the information. It can't be done.

University of Washington biologist John Medina has done extensive research into persuasion and how the brain processes information. His advice is to burn most PowerPoint decks and start over with fewer words and more pictures. According to his book, Brain Rules, "We are incredible at remembering pictures. Hear a piece of information, and three days later you'll remember 10 percent of it. Add a picture and you'll remember 65 percent."

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Google's CEO Doesn't Use Bullet Points and Neither Should YouSource

Google's Sundar Pichai gives a master class for creating simple, engaging presentations.

We don’t do PowerPoint (or any other slide-oriented) presentations at Amazon. Instead, we write narratively structured six-page memos. We silently read one at the beginning of each meeting in a kind of “study hall.” Not surprisingly, the quality of these memos varies widely. Some have the clarity of angels singing. They are brilliant and thoughtful and set up the meeting for high-quality discussion. Sometimes they come in at the other end of the spectrum.

In the handstand example, it’s pretty straightforward to recognize high standards. It wouldn’t be difficult to lay out in detail the requirements of a well-executed handstand, and then you’re either doing it or you’re not. The writing example is very different. The difference between a great memo and an average one is much squishier. It would be extremely hard to write down the detailed requirements that make up a great memo. Nevertheless, I find that much of the time, readers react to great memos very similarly. They know it when they see it. The standard is there, and it is real, even if it’s not easily describable.

Here’s what we’ve figured out. Often, when a memo isn’t great, it’s not the writer’s inability to recognize the high standard, but instead a wrong expectation on scope: they mistakenly believe a high-standards, six-page memo can be written in one or two days or even a few hours, when really it might take a week or more! They’re trying to perfect a handstand in just two weeks, and we’re not coaching them right. The great memos are written and re-written, shared with colleagues who are asked to improve the work, set aside for a couple of days, and then edited again with a fresh mind. They simply can’t be done in a day or two. The key point here is that you can improve results through the simple act of teaching scope – that a great memo probably should take a week or more.

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Six-Page Narratives, Exhibit 99.1, Annual Shareholder Letter, Jeff Bezos, 2018Source

We don’t do PowerPoint (or any other slide-oriented) presentations at Amazon. Instead, we write narratively structured six-page memos. We silently read one at the beginning of each meeting in a kind of “study hall.” Not surprisingly, the quality of these memos varies widely. Some have the clarity of angels singing. They are brilliant and thoughtful and set up the meeting for high-quality discussion. Sometimes they come in at the other end of the spectrum.

In the handstand example, it’s pretty straightforward to recognize high standards. It wouldn’t be difficult to lay out in detail the requirements of a well-executed handstand, and then you’re either doing it or you’re not. The writing example is very different. The difference between a great memo and an average one is much squishier. It would be extremely hard to write down the detailed requirements that make up a great memo. Nevertheless, I find that much of the time, readers react to great memos very similarly. They know it when they see it. The standard is there, and it is real, even if it’s not easily describable.

Here’s what we’ve figured out. Often, when a memo isn’t great, it’s not the writer’s inability to recognize the high standard, but instead a wrong expectation on scope: they mistakenly believe a high-standards, six-page memo can be written in one or two days or even a few hours, when really it might take a week or more! They’re trying to perfect a handstand in just two weeks, and we’re not coaching them right. The great memos are written and re-written, shared with colleagues who are asked to improve the work, set aside for a couple of days, and then edited again with a fresh mind. They simply can’t be done in a day or two. The key point here is that you can improve results through the simple act of teaching scope – that a great memo probably should take a week or more.

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Best Networking Tips: How to Make a ConnectionSource

Get more free tips: https://go.indeed.com/networking-tipsFind conversation starters: https://go.indeed.com/networking-convo-startersNetworking isn't just abo...

Rub your left eye

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How to Do an Elevator PitchSource

An elevator pitch is a brief introduction you can give to let others know who you are and what you do. It’s a great way to deliver your career narrative and your future goals in a compelling and engaging way.[v161594_b01]. 14 October 2020....

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what did peeman pee on?Source

exibition at wkv (public library)

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I have this question too (24)Source

The "Shapes" menu in Keynote has a limited set of graphics. Is there a site or an add-on which provides additional library of shapes and graphics

Mac Book Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.1)
Posted on Nov 2, 2009 1:56 AM

The Macintosh has from its introduction been viewed-- and among some of its users, cherished-- as a computer that brings (as the 1960s slogan put it) "power to the people." News accounts casting its development team as fearless rebels and advertising describing it as "the computer for the rest of us" projected an image of the Macintosh as a machine for creative types, freethinkers and free spirits.

This connection between computing and anti-authoritarianism was successful in part because it played on an assumption held by many people involved in early personal computing: that the invention of the personal computer owed as much to the counterculture's desire to oppose centralized authority and technology, as it did to the invention of the microprocessor. Many of the early developers of personal computers had strong countercultural credentials. Lee Felsenstein wrote for the East Bay underground newspapers Berkeley Barb and The Tribe while founding Resource One and Community Memory. Stewart Brand was founder of the Whole Earth Catalog and co-founder of the Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link (and later the Electronic Frontier Foundation). The Whole Earth Catalog, in turn, was connected to the Portola Institute, founded by former CDC engineer Robert Albrecht. As inventor Jim Warren put it, the personal computer "had its genetic coding in the 1960s'... antiestablishment, antiwar, profreedom, antidiscipline attitudes." User groups likewise shared some of the philosophical foundations (and problems) of community activist projects and employee-owned businesses.

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Think Different(ly)Source

obeserve what's behind you

General Purpose Users can write an article in their e-mail client, layout their business card in Excel and shave in front of a web cam. They can also find a way to publish photos online without flickr, tweet without twitter, like without facebook, make a black frame around pictures without instagram, remove a black frame from an instagram picture and even wake up at 7:00 without a “wake up at 7:00” app.

Maybe these Users could more accurately be called Universal Users or Turing Complete Users, as a reference to the Universal Machine, also known as Universal Turing Machine — Alan Turing’s conception of a computer that can solve any logical task given enough time and memory. Turing’s 1936 vision and design predated and most likely influenced von Neuman’s First Draft and All-purpose Machine.

But whatever name I chose, what I mean are users who have the ability to achieve their goals regardless of the primary purpose of an application or device. Such users will find a way to their aspiration without an app or utility programmed specifically for it. The Universal user is not a super user, not half a hacker. It is not an exotic type of user.

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Turing Complete User, Olia LialinaSource

Maybe these Users could more accurately be called Universal Users or Turing Complete Users, as a reference to the Universal Machine, also known as Universal Turing Machine — Alan Turing’s conception of a computer that can solve any logical task given enough time and memory. Turing’s 1936 vision and design predated and most likely influenced von Neuman’s First Draft and All-purpose Machine.

But whatever name I chose, what I mean are users who have the ability to achieve their goals regardless of the primary purpose of an application or device. Such users will find a way to their aspiration without an app or utility programmed specifically for it. The Universal user is not a super user, not half a hacker. It is not an exotic type of user.

Read every other line

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pictogramm_silence.svgSource

Oral administration is a route of administration where a substance is taken through the mouth.

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Oral Administration, WikipediaSource

Oral administration is a route of administration where a substance is taken through the mouth.

„Instead of giving a speech, Kaprow simply sat on the stage.“

Auszug aus
The Democratic Surround: Multimedia & American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties
Fred Turner
Dieses Material ist möglicherweise urheberrechtlich geschützt.

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Giving a Speech

„Instead of giving a speech, Kaprow simply sat on the stage.“

Auszug aus
The Democratic Surround: Multimedia & American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties
Fred Turner
Dieses Material ist möglicherweise urheberrechtlich geschützt.

rotate your right ankle

A lot of writing that we classify as avant-garde is argumentative or aggressively defending its position.

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Katherine Elaine Sanders

https://bombmagazine.org/articles/tan-lin/

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The Effect of the List, Nikos VoyiatzisSource

Internet users are online information collectors. Looking for information inside the web, they operate in fixed structures, databases and their lists. Lists nowadays function as, or are part of, search interfaces to online information and the online information collector is constantly confronted with them.

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Ideas Worth Spreading, Evan Roth, 2013Source

Please note that I am not affiliated with TED Conferences and TED does not endorse or support any of the items provided on this service.

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ste-jobs-trip.jpgSource

When this essay was first written for the Alvin Fine Memorial Lecture at San Francisco State University in April 1985, I was not fully aware of how much the times had already changed since I wrote The Making of a Counter Culture in 1969. But I soon learned. A few weeks before the lecture, a student in the Public Affairs Office at San Francisco State called me to arrange some campus publicity. He had a question.

"Where's Satori?"

"What?" I asked.

"Your lecture is called 'From Satori to Silicon Valley,' " he explained. "I know where Silicon Valley is. But where's Satori?"

"The Zen state of enlightenment ... you never heard of that?"

"Oh. I never took any courses in Oriental religion "

I started to explain the term, spelling out its once obvious connection with the counter culture of the sixties.

"Counter culture," he interrupted. "That's ... hippies. All like that."

Suddenly I felt one hundred years old.

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The Times They Keep A-Changin', Theodore Roszak, 2000Source

When this essay was first written for the Alvin Fine Memorial Lecture at San Francisco State University in April 1985, I was not fully aware of how much the times had already changed since I wrote The Making of a Counter Culture in 1969. But I soon learned. A few weeks before the lecture, a student in the Public Affairs Office at San Francisco State called me to arrange some campus publicity. He had a question.

"Where's Satori?"

"What?" I asked.

"Your lecture is called 'From Satori to Silicon Valley,' " he explained. "I know where Silicon Valley is. But where's Satori?"

"The Zen state of enlightenment ... you never heard of that?"

"Oh. I never took any courses in Oriental religion "

I started to explain the term, spelling out its once obvious connection with the counter culture of the sixties.

"Counter culture," he interrupted. "That's ... hippies. All like that."

Suddenly I felt one hundred years old.

“This is what it looks like,” I thought. An ideal was realized if only temporarily.

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Two People, Emma Stamm, Turn On, Tune In, Rise UpSource

Although formal meetings openly embrace Acid Communism, its truths might always be more evident at the after-parties. While I missed the lectures at Horizons 2013, I’ve since attended a number of other psychedelic conferences. More often than not, the formal lectures are less interesting than the conversations that ensue. While it’s too much to expand on medicine, culture and politics in a single talk, the disciplinary orthodoxy that guides conference lectures doesn’t apply to casual conversation. [a pattern emerged]. Many people see their psychedelic and political commitments as intertwined, refusing to reduce one to the other.

This brings me back to my story about Horizons. Following the benefactor dinner, there was an dance party. People were welcome even if they hadn’t gone to the conference, and the ticket price was affordable. As my friend and I made our way through the crowd, something stuck out: people seemed elated. They were unselfconsciously giddy in a way I rarely encountered at a typical bar. Of course, for some, this was the result of a little chemical assistance. But I was sober the aura was infectious anyway. It helped me set aside my bitterness from earlier hours and enjoy my company. I ended up talking to a man who’d brought his children along. When I asked him if he was worried about the party’s possible bad influences, he replied that this was
the most wholesome thing they’d seen all week. What they encountered at school, he observed, was far less uplifting. There was no argument there. Despite the reason for the occasion, the feeling of inclusiveness made psychedelics seem incidental. People were what mattered, not chemical compounds.

“This is what it looks like,” I thought. An ideal was realized if only temporarily.

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The Secret Life Of The OfficeSource

Today, over 50% of jobs are in offices, but 160 years ago the figure was only 1%, and the only office workers were 'Dickensian' clerks. They had considerable status and freedom to organise their work, and kept financial ledgers, but there were no forms, memos, reports, etc.

Paul, a start-up founder in New York, says he and his employees are less stressed since they started microdosing. But he couldn’t be absolutely sure about the cause and effect: he thinks it may have also been the project-management app Asana, which they started using at the same time, to keep organised.

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“How Silicon Valley rediscovered LSD” (or, Asana)Source

Paul, a start-up founder in New York, says he and his employees are less stressed since they started microdosing. But he couldn’t be absolutely sure about the cause and effect: he thinks it may have also been the project-management app Asana, which they started using at the same time, to keep organised.

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“How Silicon Valley rediscovered LSD” (or, Asana) - Team Onboarding - Asana Community ForumSource

Paul, a start-up founder in New York, says he and his employees are less stressed since they started microdosing. But he couldn’t be absolutely sure about the cause and effect: he thinks it may have also been the project-management app Asana, which they started using at the same time, to keep organised.

scratch your ear

The brain can't do two things at once

Pichai and Google's slide designers are creating brain-friendly presentations. Cognitive scientists say it's impossible for us to multitask as well as we think we can. The brain cannot do two things at once and do them equally well. When it comes to presentation design, we can't read text on the screen and listen to the speaker while retaining all of the information. It can't be done.

University of Washington biologist John Medina has done extensive research into persuasion and how the brain processes information. His advice is to burn most PowerPoint decks and start over with fewer words and more pictures. According to his book, Brain Rules, "We are incredible at remembering pictures. Hear a piece of information, and three days later you'll remember 10 percent of it. Add a picture and you'll remember 65 percent."

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Google's CEO Doesn't Use Bullet Points and Neither Should YouSource

Google's Sundar Pichai gives a master class for creating simple, engaging presentations.

focus on the next page

We don’t do PowerPoint (or any other slide-oriented) presentations at Amazon. Instead, we write narratively structured six-page memos. We silently read one at the beginning of each meeting in a kind of “study hall.” Not surprisingly, the quality of these memos varies widely. Some have the clarity of angels singing. They are brilliant and thoughtful and set up the meeting for high-quality discussion. Sometimes they come in at the other end of the spectrum.

In the handstand example, it’s pretty straightforward to recognize high standards. It wouldn’t be difficult to lay out in detail the requirements of a well-executed handstand, and then you’re either doing it or you’re not. The writing example is very different. The difference between a great memo and an average one is much squishier. It would be extremely hard to write down the detailed requirements that make up a great memo. Nevertheless, I find that much of the time, readers react to great memos very similarly. They know it when they see it. The standard is there, and it is real, even if it’s not easily describable.

Here’s what we’ve figured out. Often, when a memo isn’t great, it’s not the writer’s inability to recognize the high standard, but instead a wrong expectation on scope: they mistakenly believe a high-standards, six-page memo can be written in one or two days or even a few hours, when really it might take a week or more! They’re trying to perfect a handstand in just two weeks, and we’re not coaching them right. The great memos are written and re-written, shared with colleagues who are asked to improve the work, set aside for a couple of days, and then edited again with a fresh mind. They simply can’t be done in a day or two. The key point here is that you can improve results through the simple act of teaching scope – that a great memo probably should take a week or more.

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Six-Page Narratives, Exhibit 99.1, Annual Shareholder Letter, Jeff Bezos, 2018Source

We don’t do PowerPoint (or any other slide-oriented) presentations at Amazon. Instead, we write narratively structured six-page memos. We silently read one at the beginning of each meeting in a kind of “study hall.” Not surprisingly, the quality of these memos varies widely. Some have the clarity of angels singing. They are brilliant and thoughtful and set up the meeting for high-quality discussion. Sometimes they come in at the other end of the spectrum.

In the handstand example, it’s pretty straightforward to recognize high standards. It wouldn’t be difficult to lay out in detail the requirements of a well-executed handstand, and then you’re either doing it or you’re not. The writing example is very different. The difference between a great memo and an average one is much squishier. It would be extremely hard to write down the detailed requirements that make up a great memo. Nevertheless, I find that much of the time, readers react to great memos very similarly. They know it when they see it. The standard is there, and it is real, even if it’s not easily describable.

Here’s what we’ve figured out. Often, when a memo isn’t great, it’s not the writer’s inability to recognize the high standard, but instead a wrong expectation on scope: they mistakenly believe a high-standards, six-page memo can be written in one or two days or even a few hours, when really it might take a week or more! They’re trying to perfect a handstand in just two weeks, and we’re not coaching them right. The great memos are written and re-written, shared with colleagues who are asked to improve the work, set aside for a couple of days, and then edited again with a fresh mind. They simply can’t be done in a day or two. The key point here is that you can improve results through the simple act of teaching scope – that a great memo probably should take a week or more.

fidget

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How to Do an Elevator PitchSource

An elevator pitch is a brief introduction you can give to let others know who you are and what you do. It’s a great way to deliver your career narrative and your future goals in a compelling and engaging way.[v161594_b01]. 14 October 2020....

Stick out your tongue

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Best Networking Tips: How to Make a ConnectionSource

Get more free tips: https://go.indeed.com/networking-tipsFind conversation starters: https://go.indeed.com/networking-convo-startersNetworking isn't just abo...

To continue development, the team needed more money. Apple's Strategic Investment Group selected the company for its first investment. One month later, when they announced the software at the Personal Computer Forum in Phoenix, famous Apple CEO John Skully reportedly said "We see desktop presentation as potentially a bigger market for Apple than desktop publishing".

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The History and Evolution of PowerPoint, Pia Lehner-MittermaierSource

On April 20, 1987, the first version of PowerPoint was released. Because we love the software so much (and we know many of you readers do, too!), we wanted to celebrate PowerPoint’s 33rd birthday with a whole article dedicated to its origins, history, and use cases! 95% of presentations are created with PowerPoint, 30 Million PowerPoint presentations are given everyday, and 500 million people all over the world are using the software.

So without further ado, let’s dive into the success story of PowerPoint - with the early beginnings and the development throughout the different versions (except for version 13, which was skipped due to triskaidekaphobia concerns).

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iwork.com_logo.pngSource

iWork.com beta

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GE-GENIGRAPHICS ART SOCIETY - Celebrating the original computer-generated slide service from GESource

The major goals of the GE-Genigraphics Art Society is to preserve, document and celebrate the achievements of the original GE-created Genigraphics Corporation, the early, influential computer graphics company, in business from 1973 to 1994.

THIS SITE IS DEDICATED TO ALL THE GRAPHIC ARTISTS, ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES, ENGINEERS, PROGRAMMERS, SALES REPS, BOOKKEEPERS, MANAGERS, AND OTHER EMPLOYEES WHO WORKED AT THE ORIGINAL, GENERAL ELECTRIC-CREATED GENIGRAPHICS CORPORATION (1973-1994) WHOSE EFFORTS HELPED FORGE A NEW INDUSTRY .

Twirl your hair

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I have this question too (24)Source

The "Shapes" menu in Keynote has a limited set of graphics. Is there a site or an add-on which provides additional library of shapes and graphics

Mac Book Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.1)
Posted on Nov 2, 2009 1:56 AM

sigh faintly

The Macintosh has from its introduction been viewed-- and among some of its users, cherished-- as a computer that brings (as the 1960s slogan put it) "power to the people." News accounts casting its development team as fearless rebels and advertising describing it as "the computer for the rest of us" projected an image of the Macintosh as a machine for creative types, freethinkers and free spirits.

This connection between computing and anti-authoritarianism was successful in part because it played on an assumption held by many people involved in early personal computing: that the invention of the personal computer owed as much to the counterculture's desire to oppose centralized authority and technology, as it did to the invention of the microprocessor. Many of the early developers of personal computers had strong countercultural credentials. Lee Felsenstein wrote for the East Bay underground newspapers Berkeley Barb and The Tribe while founding Resource One and Community Memory. Stewart Brand was founder of the Whole Earth Catalog and co-founder of the Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link (and later the Electronic Frontier Foundation). The Whole Earth Catalog, in turn, was connected to the Portola Institute, founded by former CDC engineer Robert Albrecht. As inventor Jim Warren put it, the personal computer "had its genetic coding in the 1960s'... antiestablishment, antiwar, profreedom, antidiscipline attitudes." User groups likewise shared some of the philosophical foundations (and problems) of community activist projects and employee-owned businesses.

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Think Different(ly)Source

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img_5100.jpg

Frown

Derrida used a Macintosh Plus, a Macintosh Classic, and a Macintosh LC475. Reports also indicate that he owned an Apple PowerBook, an iMac, and possibly other Apple computers. "Even the computer belonging to the 'great writer' or 'great thinker' will be fetishized, like Nietzsche's typewriter," Derrida noted with some dismay (Paper Machine, 29).

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Derrida’s Macintosh | Alexander R. Gall…Source

Derrida used a Macintosh Plus, a Macintosh Classic, and a Macintosh LC475. Reports also indicate that he owned an Apple PowerBook, an iMac, and possibly other Apple computers. "Even the computer belonging to the 'great writer' or 'great thinker' will be fetishized, like Nietzsche's typewriter," Derrida noted with some dismay (Paper Machine, 29).

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ste-jobs-trip.jpgSource

In his work, Dr. Smith envisioned a scenario in which "visual entities", called icons, could execute lines of programming code, and save the operation for later re-execution.

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Icon (computing) - WikipediaSource

In his work, Dr. Smith envisioned a scenario in which "visual entities", called icons, could execute lines of programming code, and save the operation for later re-execution.

Comb your hair with your hand

As bureaucratic corporations gave way to liberated firms, project-oriented, entrepreneurial extroverts became the favored kind of employee.

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“One Damn Slide After Another”: PowerPoint at Every Occasion for SpeechSource

As bureaucratic corporations gave way to liberated firms, project-oriented, entrepreneurial extroverts became the favored kind of employee.

Tell your story with illustrations

Easily create and customize stunning illustrations with collections made by artists across the globe. Try it, it’s kind of fun.

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blush.designSource

Tell your story with illustrations

Easily create and customize stunning illustrations with collections made by artists across the globe. Try it, it’s kind of fun.

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Rest your head on your arm

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inhale deeply and hold for 4 seconds

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mailchimp-case-study-3.gif?dpr=2-fit=max-q=90-w=1500Source

Tell your story with illustrations

Easily create and customize stunning illustrations with collections made by artists across the globe. Try it, it’s kind of fun.

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blush.designSource

Tell your story with illustrations

Easily create and customize stunning illustrations with collections made by artists across the globe. Try it, it’s kind of fun.

Exhale through your nose

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Drink some water

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chaos.gif

the chaos magic star drops in from the top
its spins
and disappears
then it starts all over again
it's smilling mischievously