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Incredible findings. Apparently your mom dies sometime when you are between age 30-90.

This is what I think it is too. A gullible person draws on their personal experience and overestimates other people’s susceptibility to deception.

Design linting tools solve this problem.

This is true in the entertainment industry, but it's because consumers want to buy what everyone else is buying. Not because there's a huge difference in performance. In fact, it's…

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There are edge cases where a personal reference is valuable. If you’re inexperienced, it can get you an interview. Or it can get you a job at a small company without a real HR depa…

This is untrue for the simple reason that your friends’ employers wouldn’t allow it. Hiring practices based on personal references opens the door to discrimination lawsuits, so eve…

I clicked on the “soteria houses” link in the article

I wondered what is this “community-based” mental health care that the author advocates for, and how is it different from psychiatry. Are psychiatrists not part of the community? It…

The goal of the union is to improve wages, benefits and working conditions. If Apple addresses those concerns to the extent that union membership is a worse deal, then the union ha…

I think people advocating for increased funding for mental health services have started to define all social problems in terms of their impact on mental health, e.g. prejudice as a…

What’s being implied here is that the endowments of these elite institutions were created through historical crimes, but activists won’t make an issue of that if the universities s…

Designers hate Adobe. This acquisition caused a huge collective meltdown on Twitter, and people are saying Figma is dead now. Many people were hoping Figma would kill Adobe.

> I understand completely why this was kept quiet. Are you suggesting that Apple and Facebook normally have these kinds of discussions in public? Because that is not at all the cas…

It's a good start, but it's more of an illustration than a logo to be honest. It should work as a single color (white, black), at small scale and in combination with your product n…

I’m a huge supporters of unions, but Amazon has been very open about their opposition to unions. The fundamental argument for unions is that companies serve shareholders at the exp…

That is a normal usage in the tech industry, but that's not how ordinary people use that word. More importantly, it's not how journalists use that word. In ordinary language, you a…

ML is useful for many things. I'm asking the question of whether prediction is useful, and whether it is accurate to describe ML as making predictions. The reason to raise those qu…

If your ML model is able to predict what consumers are going to buy, the revenue lift would be zero. Let's say I go to the store to buy milk. The store has a perfect ML model, so t…

Also in the age of social media, visual identity is less about the wordmark. For most of these companies, their word mark doesn’t even show up on their social media feeds. Most hav…

It depends on how you define design. Herbert Simon defined it as “to devise courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.” And there’s a lot of acade…

I just don’t find it plausible that only certain people are capable of love, trust, loyalty, etc. and we should be looking for those kinds of people. It seems more likely that this…

I suspect that Girard’s ideas are a touch more sophisticated than “people are sheep”. Unfortunately if you see his name in a headline, that’s usually all that’s being said.

Just to play devil's advocate, surely their approach is more rational than that. They're probably looking at it from the perspective that the business needs to have a profit margin…

Well, it doesn't help that the word ideology is being used in different ways. In non-Marxist contexts, an ideology is a political theory: liberalism, socialism, fascism, etc. When …