Yun-Te Sung

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Smart marketers know how to highlight what brands can do for you to make your life easier. But brilliant marketers know how to rewire your heart
Prepare for the Ultimate Gaslighting* | by Julio Vincent Gambuto | Forge
For citizen-sourcing to take off, the focus of much policymaking must shift from the present preoccupation with the design and development of public policy products to the design and facilitation of the processes themselves that will enable citizens to make and shape policy.
Civic Engagement: Themes & Lessons | Data-Smart City Solutions
First, governments should invest "in innovations that are developed and identified by citizens outside of government who better understand the problems." Second, the office should support "'bottom-up' initiatives, in preference to 'trickle-down' philanthropy—because the societal impact of the former is typically greater." Third, Christensen argues that the office should utilize impact metrics to measure performance and, finally, that it should also invest in social innovation outside of the non-profit sector.
The Next Frontier of Engagement: Civic Innovation Labs | Planetizen Blogs
The public should have a better understanding of what makes good urban design in the first place, what the current policies are and what factors and challenges impact the urban planning process that they might not have otherwise known.
4 of the Most Creative Community Engagement Ideas for City Planners - Smart Density
“If you only focus on fact versus fiction, the only remedy is to convince people of the facts. But if we understand that the interpretation of the facts is shaped by values and knowledge and perspective, it provides a broader suite of interventions that we can use.”
Breaking down public trust | Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
Transparency is the first step to understanding what the problems are, but it’s not the full solution,” Parthasarathy says. ”We need foundational institutional change that takes community knowledge and expertise seriously and includes different perspectives, particularly from communities that are historically marginalized or that are likely to be skeptical.”
Breaking down public trust | Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
. “Because community knowledge is rarely incorporated into decision making, individuals are less likely to trust these expert institutions,” she says. “And when community knowledge is rejected in favor of scientific knowledge, it masks citizen concerns.”
Breaking down public trust | Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
The point of building trust is for others to believe what you say. Keep in mind, however, that building trust requires not only keeping the promises you make but also not making promises you’re unable to keep.
10 Ways To Build Trust in a Relationship - PositivePsychology.com
Testing the model's predictions, we find that only freedom, redistributive transfers, and education efficiently and robustly stimulate prosperity. They do this by strengthening the rule of law, reducing inequality, and by facilitating interpersonal understanding, all of which raise trust.
Building Trust: Public Policy, Interpersonal Trust, and Economic Development: Supreme Court Economic Review: Vol 10
As Aravena points out, the participatory process was not necessary to find the right answers, but rather to highlight the right questions.
Alejandro Aravena: Tackles the reconstruction of a city through public participation - YouTube
Companies can’t forget about the human element and the human desire for agency … this can help us design technology that brings in the shared vision, a world that is autonomous, livable and sustainable.”
Can Toyota succeed where Sidewalk Labs failed? | Smart Cities Dive
"I would suggest a shift from driving from a data perspective to more driving from a democratic engagement and legitimacy perspective," Alex Ryan, head of the MaRS Solutions Lab and a consultant on Toronto's Quayside project, said in an earlier interview. "How do you engage citizens more as co-designers of the spaces that they live, work and play in?"
The end of another Sidewalk Labs-linked project highlights smart city sticking point | Smart Cities Dive
Building trust can come in the form of civic engagement, something the Quayside project received much criticism for lacking.
The end of another Sidewalk Labs-linked project highlights smart city sticking point | Smart Cities Dive
"When you're dealing in the public realm, you have to be respectful of the public and that means, the human. You need to build trust and you need to be intentional in building that from the ground from up,"
The end of another Sidewalk Labs-linked project highlights smart city sticking point | Smart Cities Dive
“We’re thinking about that digital infrastructure, then data and sensors as a way to collect information about how the neighborhood functions and the environmental surroundings,” he says. “There’s a lot of work that needs to be done to connect the two…. The reality is, nobody has demonstrated on the ground that they’ve used technology in such a way that the average person has actually benefited.”
Hudson Yards' High-Tech Dreams Remain Aspirational—For Now
She relies on research to “find the right tool to answer the right questions. If you’re not asking the right question in the first place, how do you know that technology is the right approach? It may or may not be.”
Cities Aren't Technology Problems: What Smart Cities Companies Get Wrong
New technology alters perceptions not just of what is possible but also of what the world can—and should—look like
7. The Smart Enough City: Lessons from the Past and a Framework for the Future · The Smart Enough City
By recognizing the complexity of urban life rather than merely seeing the city as something to optimize, these Smart Enough Cities successfully incorporate technology into a holistic vision of justice and equity.
The Smart Enough City | The MIT Press
a livable city, a democratic city, a just city, a responsible city, and an innovative city
The Smart Enough City | The MIT Press
taking an exclusively technical view of urban life will lead to cities that appear smart but under the surface are rife with injustice and inequality.
The Smart Enough City | The MIT Press
courage, loyalty, intelligence, or cold-blooded ruthlessness
Power Theme in The Godfather | LitCharts
Yet Sonny’s hot-headedness and sentimentality makes him both reckless and predictable
Power Theme in The Godfather | LitCharts
There is no such thing as good or bad fortune for the individual; we live in common.
Seneca on True and False Friendship – Brain Pickings
Ambitious people attract other ambitious people. In positive-sum areas, they find ways to work together and help each other. That’s why inspiring goals make it easier to hire, raise money, and meet the kinds of people who can move the world with a single phone call.
What Should You Work On?
Like anything meaningful, venturing into the unknown is an act of faith. It demands responsibility. You‘ll have to take a stand, trust your decision, and ignore the taunts of outside dissent.
Peter Thiel's Religion - David Perell
We doubt the potential of grand plans. Instead, we put our faith in small tweaks and A/B tests, implying that millions of small actions are a better way of improving the world and creating a desired future.
Peter Thiel's Religion - David Perell
Girard wrote that social differences and rigid hierarchies maintain peace. When those differences collapse, the infectious spread of violence accelerates.
Peter Thiel's Religion - David Perell
On the outside, everybody wanted to get in. On the inside, everybody wanted to get out.”
Peter Thiel's Religion - David Perell
As any dancer will tell you, the heart beats fastest when two people agree to imitate each other and move in perfect sync. These are the moments when time disappears; when years of trust are built in seconds of synchronicity.
Peter Thiel's Religion - David Perell
We need architecture that is sustainable, flexible, adaptive, responsive and local, but without being parochial.
The pandemic has shown us what the future of architecture could be - The Washington Post
Architecture, he argues, needs to radically change toward a service profession, working not in isolation, but across disciplinary boundaries, approaching projects not just as problems to be solved with steel, concrete and glass, but as social problems and needs that demand wider, more holistic solutions.
The pandemic has shown us what the future of architecture could be - The Washington Post
our cities need to be dense and connected if we are to avoid the environmental problems of the mid-century suburb and a car-based culture. Tall buildings, with elevator cores, help increase density. Urban life must also be full of interaction and social energy if we are to live happily in proximity. Social stability across the generations requires that we live in fluid, multigenerational communities, integrating rather than isolating or alienating the young, the working-aged and the elderly
The pandemic has shown us what the future of architecture could be - The Washington Post