231 entries under "book"

[Instead of pushing out, pull in: work with your members to collectively send an authentic signal about what your community is about.]

[Tell an origin story that describes your personal journey (self), the collective journey (us), what people can do to get involved (now), plus 'why now?'.]

[Communicate your origin story wherever possible, online and offline, to inspire people to action.]

[Nudge members into inviting others by communicating how their involvement is important to the community's success. Make it easy for them by giving them the shareable assets. How can we make it easier for them to do it on their own terms?]

[The leader of Downtown Girls Basketball takes a cool team photo at half-time, including even the new people and those who need to leave early, and offers to send it to anyone interested. Nearly everyone wanted it and many posted it to their social media.]

[Wield your spotlight by seeking stories from exceptional members and then sharing them widely to inspire others to join the fun.]

[Carve out ways for other people to share their perspective, contribute, participate. Do it together.]

[We decided to use a Facebook group over a page because it would allow old, new, and potential customers could talk to each other.]

[Structure is not enough, you need to actively prompt or provoke dialogue.]

[Create affordances for different levels of expertise: analog people, quick learners who are less technical, power users, programmers.]

[Including an additional, more advanced toolset that is beyond the capacity of most users can help cultivate a community of more complex customizations enabled by local developers and programmers.]

[Enable users with varying skill levels to collaborate as a way to completely express more complex ideas.]

[Spreadsheets integrate text and graphics by organizing textual programs or formulas into the tabular grid of visual cells.]

[Spreadsheets pre-name variables according to their position on the grid.]

[End-user programming languages are more motivating to learn when they are task-oriented: instead of making available only smaller primitives, provide higher-level abstractions that actually do complete jobs.]

[Spreadsheets are approachable not because most people know how to add and subtract, but because that's what accountants and business people do.]

[Go beyond 'easy to use' and prioritize early success within a few hours of use to increase motivation.]

[Avoid 'having to know everything to do anything']

[Spreadsheets obviate the need for control structures or variable names.]

[Conversational language is a poor medium of HCI because computers lack the context that we constantly refer to, as well as the ability to interpret context to derive meaning.]

[Deterministic outcomes from a computer and so prefer formal languages because conversation is naturally open-ended and not specific.]

[End users are not 'casual' or 'naive': they are scientists, librarians, teachers, architects, and people that want to make serious use of computers without becoming professional programmers.]

[When you enter an area with birds, insects, or animals, they are listening to you completely as it may mean the difference between survival and death. You are received.]

[Context, like location and the people present, is what defines how a story is told: the same story can vary based on the audience. Social media like Twitter collapses context to the point where the more successful actors are generic.]

[As opposed to friends and family that see a person growing and changing over time, the social media crowd sees a monolithic and timeless figure who is expected to never change their mind.]

[Contrast Mark Zuckerberg's 'two identities is a lack of integrity' with Audrey Lorde's 'multiple selves']

[Online censorship exists without governmental intervention through flooding the stream with banalities that distracts from serious issues.]

[Online discourse creates weak ties: physical dimensions of time and space enable stronger connections and dialogues.]

Anger will get you started but it won't keep you going.

[Various questions that you pose while knowing your environment are all trying to answer: where and when am I, and how do I know that?]

[Algorithms recommend friends based on instrumental qualities like shared interests, common purchases or friends. Geographic proximity places us near people we have no apparent instrumental reason for connecting with, and sometimes they are neither family, or friends, or potential friends.]

[Expansions of attention are hard to reverse: when something goes from idea to reality, perception cannot easily be forced back into a smaller container.]

['Be yourself' in language of advertising and marketing means 'be more of the consistent and recognizable habits and drives that are easy to target and appropriate'.]

[If you were reading a book where the pages progressively became more and more similar until you were reading the same page repeatedly, you would probably put the book down.]

['Alone in nature' is an oxymoron.]

[When thinking about where ideas come from, the constraints of English force the phrase "I" "produced" an "idea". But none of those entities are stable with clear boundaries and the grammatical relationship between them is misleading.]

[Cognition is not the functional output of an input world with an input mind, but rather the enactment of a world and mind.]

[Going through life not knowing the names of our surrounding plants and animals is like being lost in a foreign city where we can't read the street signs. We become isolated and lonely without being able to call out to our neighbors.]

Linnaeus lends Nanabozho his magnifying glass so he can see the tiny floral parts. Nanabozho gives Linnaeus a song so he can see their spirits. And neither of them are lonely.

[Referring to things as inanimate objects closes the door to the possibility of them interacting and engaging with us, teaching us.]

[She looked at what was left of Mount St. Helens and commented in English, "Poor thing", expressing sympathy and concern for the well-being of another person, which she didn't have to explain because of the particular way of perceiving the world embedded in her native language.]

[The species had co-evolved with indigenous harvesting practices, which itself evolved to increase the success of the plant.]

[Chris J. Cuomo critiques the animal rights based on sentience because it assumes that lifeforms are valuable insofar as they resemble humans.]

[Bioregional borders are permeable and impossible to define.]

Difference must not be merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic.

[Communities in the attention economy feel like industrial farms, where we are supposed to grow straight an tall, side by side, producing faithfully without touching. There is no time to reach out and form horizontally networks of attention and support.]

[Bioregionalism and acts of attention can help break the individualism that prevents seeing how we are integrated with the planet and other living beings without boundaries.]

If something is boring after two minutes, try if for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

[Attention is a state that assumes there is something new to be seen and that resists the tendency to declare observation finished.]

[What passes for sustained attention is actually a series of successive attempts to bring attention back to the same thing.]

[Watching your assumptions like waiting with a net to catch a dragonfly.]

"Ethical persuasion" means persuading the user to do something that is good for them, using "harmonious designs that continuously empower us instead of distracting and frustrating us"

[Most persuasive design, whether nefarious or 'empowering', assumes a shallow form of attention.]

[Experience is what we agree to attend to. At first I chose certain things to look at, and over time more and more actors appeared in my reality: after birds, there were trees, then different kinds of trees, then the bugs that lived in them. I began to notice animal communities, plant communities, animal-plant communities. I began to build a map of my attention that included more-than-human communities, noticing things that I had walked by past most of my life. This is bioregionalism.]

Once, seeing a child drinking from his hands, Diogenes threw away his cup and said, "A child has beaten me in plainness of living." Another time, he loudly admired a mouse for its economy of living.

[Rather than fleeing to the mountains or killing himself, he lived in the midst of a hypocritic society as the embodiment of refusal.]

[When life both inside and outside of society doesn't make sense, create the 'third space' as an alternate frame of reference, a non-answer.]

[In Bartleby's repetitions of 'I would prefer not to', there is no reason given, no reason given for why there is not reason given, and so on.]

[As fewer people find themselves with the margin of privilege to switch off from the attention economy, attention itself might be the last resource we can control.]

[Hyper-accelerated expression on social media produces value for the platform and is a form of communication driven by fear and anger as opposed to reflection and reason. They become like firecrackers that trigger other firecrackers, soon filling the room with smoke. Outrage drives engagement while publishers promote articles that fan the flames.]

[Standing apart is to take the view of an outsider without leaving, to know your enemy, to allow belief in another world while continuing to live in this one.]

[Listening to everything there is to hear includes the sounds of daily life as well as your own thoughts.]

[Bird watching is the opposite of looking up something online because you cannot request anything: the best you can do is be silent and use your senses to understand where things are happening.]

[Eight hours for work, eight hours for rest, eight hours for everything else.]

…mind, body, spirit? How can we balance our time more to avoid over-emphasizing the mind?

[Faux-public spaces are scripted environments in which you consume the space.]

[The capitalist mindset wants every waking moment to be monetizable via employment or evaluatable via social media metrics, which makes it expensive to spend time on nothing as it provides no return on investment.]

[Noticing how some ravens live half-in and half-out the rose garden, I realize that there is no 'rose garden' to them.]

[We are not avatars, brands, or a set of preferences. We're inconsistent, lumpy, different each day, and we sense things in a world where others sense us.]

[Reimagine FOMO as NO(S)MO: Necessity of (sometimes) missing out.]

Silence is not the absence of something but the presence of everything.

The Death Instinct: separation, individuality, Avant-Garde par excellence; to follow one's own path—do your own thing; dynamic change.

The Life Instinct: unification; the eternal return; the perpetuation and MAINTENANCE of the species; survival systems and operations, equilibrium.

[It's important to identify as citizens of bioregions even more than the state does, to consider the life-forms and the relationships between then including humans, to be commit to stewardship of the land.]

[A block of text creates a certain texture based on the thickness and evenness of letter stroke, the serifs.]

[A font's point size is based on the difference between the tallest ascender (like the tip of a 'b') and the lowest descender (like the tail of a 'p').]

[Body copy tends to look better with a leading / line-height of 120% to 140% of a type's size (1.2em to 1.4em).]

[Similar character widths make for better pairings.]

[Typefaces are built for specific mediums such as print or screen.]

[If you seperate paragraphs with space, a full line break is usually too much, better to have 0.8em.]

[Within Serif fonts: Old style, like Garamond, has a tilted axis, round serifs, modulated strokes; Traditional, like Baskerville, has an upright axis, sharp serifs, heavily modulated strokes, geometrical shapes; Modern, like Bodoni, has an upright axis, thin serifs, extremely modulated strokes, geometric counters; Slab-serif, like Museo Slab, has an upright axis, even thick modulation that matches the size of serifs.]

[Short cones are absent from the fovea, which is the center of our focus and where we can best see detail.]

[Researchers found that exposure to red overloads the brain's rationalizing capacity without you realizing. Participants displayed hesitation and earned lower IQ test scores, but rates their performance the same as the control.]

[Shopping in a Target store involves being assaulted with red in every direction, and there is a joke that you cannot leave without spending $100.]

[When surveying color usage and significance in a particular culture, research the flag, religions, weddings and funerals, holidays, sports.]

[Pointillism exploits our perception of two different colored dots placed next to one another to create the effect of a different overall color.]

[Warm hues and tints pop and appear to be closer. Cool hues and shades recede and appear to be farther away.]

[Tinted purple on black pops in a more jarring way than on blue because there is a relationship between the colors in the former pair.]

[Monochromatic schemes use a single base color with various tints and shades, and tend to be quiet.]

[Analogous schemes use adjacent or alternating adjacent hues, and tend to be harmonious and quiet.]

[Complementary schemes use opposing hues on the wheel and can be more exciting.]

[Split complementary schemes divide one opposing hue into its two adjacent colors, and can be less jarring or more harmonious than complementary schemes.]

[Triadic schemes use three evenly spaced hues.]

[Colour as we perceive it is a form of electromagnetic radiation between 400-790 teraherts. It's lower than infrared, microwaves, and radio; higher than x-rays and ultraviolet.]

[We don't see pure colours. They are spectrums that our visual system approximates, which results in our experiencing of the dominant color.]

[Colour constancy refers to the phenomenon of perceiving various shades of a colour as the same, despite there being subtle differences between them.]

[Human eyes have millions of photoreceptors called cones that can be divided into three sizes and each is more sensitive to a certain spectra: short (blue/violet), medium (green), and large (red/yellow-green))

[Ganglion cells antagonistically combine signals from the cones, which makes red compete with green, and blue compete with yellow.]

[There is no purple as pure and dominant. Ganglion cells perceive red and blue simultaneously.]

[Women rarely have colour blindness because they have two X chromosomes, which is where the genes for cones are located.]

[A dog may have a hard time finding a red ball in green grass because they are naturally are dichromatic, which means that one of the three cone types is nor present. This is common in mammals other than humans.]

[Some hues have wider perceptible ranges of saturation and lightness: the color space is not uniform.]

[Using a Lab color picker can result in more uniform lightness than HSB.]

[In the additive RGB color system used by screens: red and green combine to make yellow, red and blue to make magenta, and blue and green to make cyan.]

[Whereas RGB is an additive process the mixes towards white, CMYK starts with white and subtracts by reflecting light through pigments.)

[Color management between color profiles relies on Lab representation to produce colors that are ultimately not identical but metamerically the same.]

[If a shape is repeated enough times at a small enough scale, it becomes texture.]

[Use direction and organize elements into explicit and implicit lines to guide the eye from one section to the other.]

[Use contrast not only to differentiate elements: frame and give focus to light elements by surrounding them with darkness.]