Startups Embroiled in Debate Over Ethics of Facial Recognition — The Information
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The Era of “Move Fast and Break Things” Is Over.
”If innovation is to survive into the 21st century, we need to change how companies are built by changing the questions we ask of them.”
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@jmspool @uxpodcast Haha, thank you Jared! Also, I'm sure you'll say something controversial soon to get people riled up. Then you'll have to invite us over to work it all out on a live show ;)
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@sookio Is there any chance that you've kept a hi-res version of this photo that I could get access to? :)
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@nickf The realization that one does not have to be perfect, merely set aside time to adjust priorities once in a while, is the best.
When I started out in usability, user-centric implied for me "doing what's best for the user". I now understand that user-centric is understanding as much as possible about people for the purpose of imposing a solution on them.
Today I strive for human-considerate.
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@Tynell Yeah, it'd be a tough change overnight. I was forced into it just by the sheer amount, and my workload, and then came to realize waiting wasn't a problem.
Fun challenge for myself. All my reaction gifs (on Twitter) for the rest of the year will be pandas.
When I stopped responding to e-mails same day I believe I created a new healthy, mindful space I had forgotten was available to me. Responding to e-mails can now take me an average of 1-2 weeks and I don’t let it bother me. On the contrary, accepting this empowers me.
When responding I also avoid apologizing for the wait. What I will do is thank the sender for their patience.
Yes, obviously this is a generalization with exceptions, but there is a huge change in how I manage and allow myself to feel about e-mails. Since about a year back.
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https://medium.com/@muppetaphrodite/beyond-coffee-the-creative-mentee-7ec27dcaa215
Om du letar efter en mentor kan det säkert kännas hopplöst svårt ibland. Den här artikeln från Cheryl Platz ger en mängd goda råd kring hur du kan tänka och agera.
(Ber om ursäkt för att ett konto behövs hos Medium för att läsa, dock gratis.)
https://medium.com/@muppetaphrodite/beyond-coffee-the-creative-mentee-7ec27dcaa215
Benchmarking and best-practices can be a recipe for repetitive abuse.
("but, but... everyone else is doing it!")
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@muppetaphrodite @Medium This post is absolutely brilliant. Thank you for writing it!
I’ve grown weary of titles. I hang with the people I like, go to conferences I enjoy and in my work strive to create the most value to both sender and receiver of content and services. Sometimes I work alone, sometimes I lead teams.
I sometimes work close to the product, sometimes with strategy. If others feel a need to label me that’s fine. What I don’t like is working without talking to - and cooperating with - people affected by what I’m contributing to.
Setting clear goals is also an essential. As is avoiding or mitigating any contribution to harm. I’ll work from A to B, but need to know that everyone agrees on what those letters represent before I create anything.
This interview with @jack makes me suspect that Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has been placed in the wrong genre, and is actually a dystopian prediction on par with Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four.
I want a meet-up around this interview,
huffingtonpost.com/entry/jack-dor…
”Alice felt dreadfully puzzled. The Hatter’s remark seemed to have no sort of meaning in it, and yet it was certainly English. `I don’t quite understand you,’ she said, as politely as she could.”
”Alice sighed wearily. `I think you might do something better with the time,’ she said, `than waste it in asking riddles that have no answers.’”
`Really, now you ask me,’ said Alice, very much confused, `I don’t think–‘
`Then you shouldn’t talk,’ said the Hatter.
This piece of rudeness was more than Alice could bear: she got up in great disgust, and walked off; the Dormouse fell asleep instantly, >
and neither of the others took the least notice of her going, though she looked back once or twice, half hoping that they would call after her: the last time she saw them, they were trying to put the Dormouse into the teapot. >
`At any rate I’ll never go THERE again!’ said Alice as she picked her way through the wood. `It’s the stupidest tea-party I ever was at in all my life!’
Just speed watched #FyreNetflix to grasp what the fuss was about. Exposed scams and scammers provide a learning moment. If anything it also shows how much is recorded in video and audio these days(!)
Will make my kids watch as a discussion point and deterrent.
I think by now I could teach my entire ethics course using only screendumps from chat conversations that I see on Twitter =) x.com/visakanv/statu…
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@visakanv This is how I see the kitchen area at every company I visit :) Once someone starts putting their dirty coffee cup in the sink instead of the dishwasher, others do the same. Bad vibes ensue.
