Presenting another installment of a collection of most-highly-recommended articles, websites and ideas that shaped my thinking throughout the past few weeks (recently renamed from “What I’ve been reading lately – the not-so-weekly digest”.) Topics include design, research, user experience, anthropology, business, organizational culture, technology, careers, culture [change] and society, and other great stuff.
Design & User Experience
A UX legend on the much-rumored death of the design firm | Fast Company
Where did the big green copier button come from? | A Thinking Person
Sentence length: why 25 words is our limit | GOV.UK
How Museums Studies made me a better UX designer | Felt Pixel
Lost and found in the design process | User Experience NC
Research
The Whys and Hows of Generations Research | Pew Research Center
What does the next era of design research look like? | frog
Weave – Open Access Library UX Journal
Anthropology
Open letter to US anthropologists Kim Hill and Robert S Walker | Survival
Teaching Anthropology of/through Games Part II | Teaching Culture
There has been a dead cockroach in the anthropology building’s stairwell for at least two weeks (Imgur)
Mindless terrorists? The truth about ISIS is much worse | The Guardian
Sales-Driven Soothsayers: Corporate Anthropologists as Trending Trope in Today’s Public Imagination | EPIC
Business
Why Europe isn’t creating any Googles or Facebooks | Business Insider
Let’s sell some shit to these Millennials | The Billfold
The “Sharing Economy” is Dead, and We Killed It | Fast Company
Organizational Culture
Help for the way we work now | The New York Times
Hire People, Not Skills | MailChimp
Organizational Culture Reading List | Sam Ladner
Technology
Tech bus drivers forced to live in cars to make ends meet | SF Chronicle
From SimCity to, well, SimCity: A history of city-building games | Ars Technica
Addicted to Distraction | The New York Times
Why I quit ordering from Uber-for-food start-ups | The Atlantic
Careers
The One Question You Should Ask at Every Job Interview | The New York Times
What does it mean to be T-shaped? | The Inquisitive Anthropologist
Distinguishing yourself as a UX professional | UX Matters
How to write a great user experience resume | Usability Counts
Culture [Change] and Society
The Quiet Dignity of the Tourist at the 9/11 Memorial, a Photo Essay | Gary He
The Dead Zones of Hypercapitalism – in pictures | The Guardian
Children of the Yuan Percent: Everyone Hates China’s Rich Kids | Bloomberg Business
Why I just asked my students to put their laptops away | Clay Shirky
I recorded the racists things people said & did to me for two weeks | Romper
OMG! The Hyperbole of Internet-Speak | The New York Times
Personal Growth
Take control of your time to get what you want | CBC Radio
4 ways to deal with criticism so it doesn’t get you down | Tiny Buddha
Other Great Stuff
The Peculiar Ascent of Bill Murray to Secular Saint | The New York Times
What is it like to live with ALS? An interview | Oregon Public Broadcasting
Bloody Trump | Sarah Levy Art
Tree of life for 2.3 million species released | Phys.org
Photo by Isaac Sachs
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