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A Network of Sorrows: Small Adversaries and Small Allies

In an environment where everybody can pick up everybody’s tools, we’re all weirdly empowered now. And I mean kind of weird in an almost fey sense like, our powers are weird, they make us weird, and they make our our conflicts weird. It’s again that idea that our tools are interacting with our human flaws in really really interesting ways.

Campbell Brown’s Advice for the Next President

Two out of three 8th graders in this country cannot read or do math at grade level. We are not preparing our kids for what the future holds.

Everybody Knows When You’re Talking To Your Mother

You have to think with your users, with your customers, what is your actual relationship? Are they your gods? Are they your guests? Are they a nuisance to you? Because you know where the power is.

Designing a Country from Scratch: Nation Branding in South Sudan

Design for emergence operates on a different set of criteria steeped in the politics and urgency of its time. I believe that in this scenario, having these so-called safe choices is not a bad thing. During this time of emergence it’s good that we have defined a graphic language of nationhood, expedient variations of heraldic traditions of crests, cartouches, and coats of arms. A lingua franca of legitimacy.