Ask a (liberal) rabbi….Response
December 20, 2013
I really enjoyed the questions and the responses here.
Items of Interest
Collecting amazing and interesting things on the web.
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How to present well without slides
December 19, 2013
presentations / public-speaking
You’d have to listen carefully to figure out when ideas would be better presented visually rather than with words alone, which is the secret for thinking about your own presentations: when do you truly need a visual image to express an idea? And when would it be better simply letting your voices tell the story?
This Isn’t About You
November 22, 2013
life / parenting / spirituality
I’ve learned that God’s plan for parenting is better than mine; that my sons don’t need me to always be their shield, but instead their ever present support. I’ve learned that God can give me the strength to do that in all situations.
MailChimp Pattern Library
November 22, 2013
The MailChimp Pattern Library is a byproduct of our move to a responsive, nimble, and intuitive app. Constant iteration requires both an efficient workflow and a well defined collection of atomic elements that can assemble new UIs quickly without accruing new technical or design debt.
Finding Your Way with Sass Sourcemaps
November 22, 2013
Put plainly, sourcemaps are a way to map compiled code back to its native state. That may sound kind of odd, but sourcemaps will make every Sass-loving developer’s life a little bit better. Browsers that understand the generated map file will know where each and every line of code came from, down to the line number in the original Sass file, rather than the line number from the compiled CSS file.
What Screens Want by Frank Chimero
November 21, 2013
Just like any material, screens have affordances. Much like wood, I believe screens have grain: a certain way they’ve grown and matured that describes how they want to be treated. The grain is what gives the material its identity and tells you the best way to use it. Figure out the grain, and you know how to natively design for screens.
And we’ve tried. Oh god, we’ve tried. Unfortunately, the discussion around screen-native design feels a bit stunted in its current form. We’re stuck in a pendulum swing.
Tufts Magazine / fall 2013
November 7, 2013
There’s never been an America, but rather several Americas—each a distinct nation. There are eleven nations today. Each looks at violence, as well as everything else, in its own way.
Happy Birthday, Brain Pickings: 7 Things I Learned in 7 Years of Reading, Writing, and Living | Brain Pickings
October 31, 2013
I share these here not because they apply to every life and offer some sort of blueprint to existence, but in the hope that they might benefit your own journey in some small way, bring you closer to your own center, or even simply invite you to reflect on your own sense of purpose.
How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses | Wired Business | Wired.com
October 28, 2013
For the time being, we can see what the future looks like in places like Juárez Correa’s classroom. We can also see that change will not come easily.
Meetings: The Canary in the Culture Coal Mine
October 23, 2013
Meetings in organizations surface some of the best and the worst of these habits, all bundled into a complex package. For a troubled team, you’ll be hard pressed to find a better place than a meeting to expose tensions between the actual and advertised culture.