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jovina rahardjo

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  • The usual way to avoid being taken by surprise by something is to be consciously aware of it. Back when life was more precarious, people used to be aware of death to a degree that would now seem a bit morbid. I'm not sure why, but it doesn't seem the right answer to be constantly reminding oneself of the grim reaper hovering at everyone's shoulder. Perhaps a better solution is to look at the problem from the other end. Cultivate a habit of impatience about the things you most want to do.
    Life is Short
  • In acting as a beacon of hope, Are.na holds a cultural significance equal to its utility. It reminds reformists that not only is there a better way, this path forward need not involve technocratic gibberish or hand-wavy utopian speak. It can be both ambitious and clear as day. In a blog post reflecting on Are.na’s 10 year anniversary, founder Charles Browkoski said: Our ideal outcome as a company is not becoming the next Facebook (god forbid), it’s becoming the next Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan, a hot spring hotel in Japan, and one of the world’s oldest businesses (founded in 705 AD). What a fitti…
    Bryan Lehrer
  • Small, sharp tools in the Unix style have trouble sharing data, unless they live inside a framework that makes communication among them easy. Emacs is such a framework, and unified management of shared context is what the optional complexity of Emacs is buying.
    Small, Sharp Tools
  • Many modern web applications are choosing to build out their architecture as a set of services that communicate over the network layer
    Small, Sharp Tools
  • Rule of Modularity: Write simple parts connected by clean interfaces. Rule of Composition: Design programs to be connected to other programs. Rule of Parsimony: Write a big program only when it is clear by demonstration that nothing else will do.
    Small, Sharp Tools
  • The exhor­ta­tion “learn to code” has its foun­da­tions in market value. “Learn to code” is suggested as a way up, a way out. “Learn to code” offers economic leverage, profes­sional transformation. “Learn to code” goes on your resume. But let’s substi­tute a different phrase: “learn to cook”. People don’t only learn to cook so they can become chefs. Some do! But many more people learn to cook so they can eat better, or more affordably. Because they want to carry on a tradition. Sometimes they learn because they’re bored! Or even because they enjoy spending time with the person who’s teaching t…
    An app can be a home-cooked meal
  • If taste isn’t innocent, then neither is design. Designers refuse to ignore the deep-seated inequalities of the industry, but questioning the tyranny of its origins and disrupting the canon is only the beginning. Designers agree real progress must shift to the structural: who makes decisions, who benefits financially, who gets in, who is kept out, and what systems of power rule.
    Design Thread 1 – Tyranny of Taste
  • You might spend the less active months journaling in your notebook: less output, more stirring around on input. You need both. Plants remind us that life is about balance.
    My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be? – The Creative Independent
  • TCI’s website like a house next to a river. We considered the interviews the flowing water, as they were our house’s nutrients and source of life. We would collect and drink from the water every day. But sometimes, depending on its nutrient makeup, the water would change our house. We’d wake up to see a new door where a picture frame once was. Knowledge became the architect.
    My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be? – The Creative Independent
  • To those creative people who say “I don’t need a website,” I ask: why not have a personal website that works strategically, in parallel to your other activities? How could a website complement what you already do rather than competing or repeating? How can you make it fun or thought-provoking or (insert desired feeling here) for you? How can the process of making and cultivating a website contribute to your approach?
    My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be? – The Creative Independent
  • Some things feel deeply personal and sacred: dinners by myself and smearing acrylic paint across a canvas, being embarrassingly earnest, and wanting badly for things to sail smoothly. This life feels durable, weightless at times and then indescribably heavy in other moments. That’s what it takes to be deeply involved with life. To relish both moments where you feel steadfast, stable. And persist past moments where you feel unmoored, lost. So I guess that’s the balance: being willing to take things in, to deepen context. And also bear witness to the world that refuses to be predictable. I don’t…
    "I'm not ready" but it's happening anyways - by Nix 🕊
  • But to keep trying is to declare to the universe that you will have the courage to be human, when everyone and everything tempts you to be otherwise. Remember: you are you. We live here. This is now.
    You Are You. We Live Here. This is Now. - Freddie deBoer
  • Basic dynamic in life: there is nothing meaningful enough to make you happy that could not make you sad if you lost it. This is the paradox of feeling, and it’s inherent and existential.
    You Are You. We Live Here. This is Now. - Freddie deBoer
  • The devil is in the details. For example, actions may require a visual representation, or they would be taken as static representations of location or object
    Microsoft Word - Medhi ICT4D-version-cameraversion-new.doc
  • n designing the UI, we drew from guidelines of ethnographic design, in which techniques of ethnography were used to gain a deep understanding of the subjects, within the context of their specific goals
    Microsoft Word - Medhi ICT4D-version-cameraversion-new.doc
  • computer applications pose an accessibility barrier to those who are unable to read fluently. The heavy use of text on everything from menus to document content means that those who are illiterate or semi-illiterate are not able to access functions and services implemented on most computer software.
    Microsoft Word - Medhi ICT4D-version-cameraversion-new.doc
  • I don’t mean to belittle these strategies; I’m sure they make sense to the people who pursue them. I just don’t understand them myself. I do know that none of these people will be successful traders. ...or successful at anything important in life.
    Pmarchive · Pmarca Guide to Career Planning: Opportunity
  • For example, when you are just out of school and have a low burn rate and geographic flexibility, you can take jobs with a certain return/risk profile.
    Pmarchive · Pmarca Guide to Career Planning: Opportunity
  • Viewed in that context, it is often logical to have individual investments within a portfolio that are far more risky than one would normally find comfortable—if the potential return is good enough.
    Pmarchive · Pmarca Guide to Career Planning: Opportunity
  • The world is a very malleable place. If you know what you want, and you go for it with maximum energy and drive and passion, the world will often reconfigure itself around you much more quickly and easily than you would think.
    Pmarchive · Pmarca Guide to Career Planning: Opportunity
  • But I'm particularly proud to have done it because it's a vote for an identity that I want to have: the kind of person who's willing to do stuff like this on a whim.
    Urban Camping
  • The Stoics suggest that if you have something you really enjoy, you should give it up occasionally. This helps you to more fully appreciate having the thing.
    Urban Camping