📖 Read pages 220-356 of Just My Type: A Book about Fonts by Simon Garfield (Gotham Books, 2011, ISBN: 978-1592406524) Highlights, Quotes, & Marginalia Chapter 16: Pirates and Clones But type designers were more like apple growers cultivating unique fruit without protective fences; whenever someone stole them, they could argue that apples were the result…
📗 Started: Read pages i-62 (Introduction and Chapter 1) of Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath & Dan Heath (Random House, 2007, ISBN: 978-1400064281) This seemed interesting in the library when I browsed by, so I picked it up. Seems a quick/easy read. Covers some interesting material related…
📖 Read pages 193-219 of Just My Type: A Book about Fonts by Simon Garfield (Gotham Books, 2011, ISBN: 978-1592406524) Highlights, Quotes, & Marginalia Not the least significant of their innovations was to produce a $ sign; previously, printers had used a long 'S'. Highlight (yellow) - 14. American Scottish > Page 197 in reference…
📖 Read pages 143-192 of Just My Type: A Book about Fonts by Simon Garfield (Gotham Books, 2011, ISBN: 978-1592406524) Highlights, Quotes, & Marginalia ...[Jock] Kinneir and [Margaret] Calvert did something else important: they established that it is a lot easier to read lower-case letters than capitals when travelling at speed. Highlight (yellow) - 10.…
📖 Read pages 1-37 of The Celtic Myths: A Guide to the Ancient Gods and Legends by Miranda Aldhouse-Green (Thames & Hudson, 2015, ISBN: 978-0500252093) I picked this up the other day while browsing at the library. It's turned out not to have some of the actual mythological tales I was expecting, but, even better,…
📖 Read pages 89-142 of Just My Type: A Book about Fonts by Simon Garfield The flowery language continues apace almost as if this were a love letter to the typographic arts. There is seemingly no solid narrative thrust throughout the book, which easily makes it something that one can read a chapter or two…
📖 Read pages 52-88 of Just My Type: A Book about Fonts by Simon Garfield Highlights, Quotes, & Marginalia Chapters 3-5 people found type with strong distinctive strokes easier to read than flattened styles; and a greater distinction between letters led to a clearer (and faster) digest of information. The research confirmed that the key…
📖 Read chapter one of Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O’Neil I don't think she's used the specific words in the book yet, but O'Neil is fundamentally writing about social justice and transparency. To a great extent both governments and increasingly large corporations are using these Weapons of Math…
📖 Read introduction of Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O'Neil Based on the opening, I'm expecting some great examples many which are going to be as heavily biased as things like redlining seen in lending practices in the last century. They'll come about as the result…
The world’s connections have become more important than its divisions. To reap the rewards and avoid the pitfalls of this new order, the United States needs to adopt a grand strategy based on three pillars: open societies, open governments, and an open international system.
This may be one of the most interesting things I've read in the past six months. I like the overarching philosophy of the policy direction the writer presents. It feels to me like a policy built from the basic principles from César Hidalgo's book Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies,…
Donald Trump’s candidacy is part of a broad populist upsurge throughout the Western world. Economic stasis and rapid cultural change have provoked a backlash across Europe and North America, and enlightened leadership will be needed to respond to legitimate grievances without pandering to the public’s worst instincts.
This is one of the most sane analyses I've seen in a while about what is happening in the world. I recommend it highly. My Highlights, Quotes, & Marginalia Trump’s political genius was to realize that many Republican voters were unmoved by the standard party gospel of free trade, low taxes, deregulation, and entitlement reform…
📖 On page 16 of 448 of Dealing with China by Henry M. Paulson, Jr. A simple preface followed by an anecdote about the beginning of a deal relating to telecom. The style is quick moving and history, details, and philosophy are liberally injected into the story as it moves along. This seems both interesting…
Lurking Yesterday I was catching up on chat logs and ran across a stub for lurking on the IndieWeb wiki. I cleaned up the formatting a bit and added some additional material. Later Ton Zijlstra dropped a link to his excellent article from 2004 on the topic: Lurking and Social Networks (though honestly, I first came…
Highlights, Quotes, Annotations, & Marginalia But if you want to wade into the murky waters of the tech industry; if you’re wanting to think more deeply about the power and ethical responsibility you have in this industry; if you’re perplexed but not in despair; if you’re ready to think about the direct impact our work…
I use Hypothes.is regularly as part of my daily workflow. I'm also very interested in being able to "own" the data I generate with the tool and being able to keep it on my own digital commonplace book (aka website). As part of this, I'd like to be able to receive notifications from people publicly…
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