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What is Art for anyway?
Artists have always cultivated a mystique.
Feb 23, 2024
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Rick Barber
March 2020
Real post-modernity
In 2016, I read The Sovereign Individual and watched James Burke’s Connections for the first time [1].
Mar 25, 2020
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Rick Barber
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February 2020
After the outbreak
What would the world look like after an historic pandemic?
Feb 25, 2020
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Rick Barber
January 2020
Politics, designed
The most revolutionary thing you can do in today’s politics is to assume at least a few people on the other side are acting in good faith.
Jan 5, 2020
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Rick Barber
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The use of knowledge in the tech industry
How much and what kinds of knowledge are most useful?
Jan 2, 2020
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Rick Barber
Ah, The New Year
Why your resolutions probably won't work for long
Jan 2, 2020
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Rick Barber
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December 2019
Time as a complicated dimension of UX design
Is faster always better?
Dec 12, 2019
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Rick Barber
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Adversarial interaction
How users can win with online platforms
Dec 9, 2019
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Rick Barber
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November 2019
Why Doesn't AI More Often Reflect End Users' Best Interests?
Someone shared a post with this title on Reddit.
Nov 11, 2019
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Rick Barber
May 2019
The next basic human right
Why autonomy–that is, our ability to choose now, when we are reflective, which impulses to which we will succumb later, when we are not–will be the…
May 8, 2019
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Rick Barber
April 2019
Don't share this post
Why the most popular post on Medium sucks
Apr 18, 2019
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Rick Barber
For want of a button
How the like button destroyed civilization
Apr 5, 2019
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Rick Barber
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