Thinking of design as problem-solving is an improvement over thinking of design as art, but as we move into a world of systems, the idea of solving a problem may be replaced by the idea of finding balance in a system. This post is a transcript of a never-before-released…

The following is based on the transcript of the 8min 21sec explainer video above, you can also watch an abridged 4min 29sec version of the video here. This week (starting Tuesday, November 29, 2022), part-time faculty at The New School who make up 87% of the teaching staff, will…

tips for harnessing creative intelligence and collaboration — Facilitation is one of those skills that we don’t always fully appreciate until something goes wrong: the conversation in a strategy meeting goes off the rails, or a brainstorming ideation session goes nowhere. But when done well, facilitation can unlock the collective intelligence of a team to reach clarity, harness…

How overzealous (and erroneous) copyright enforcement tramples fair use and is a bad look for progressive politics — To Pete Buttigieg CC: Hyperakt and Zazzle Dear Pete (and Team), I don’t think we have ever met. We were a couple of years apart at Harvard, and we have some friends in common. I don’t know how I feel about your politics yet, but I support your ambition as…

U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 United States of America United States of Amnesia United States of Antithetical Extremes Today we celebrate science and NASA landing on Mars 🚀 But sometimes science is not science Even when the scientists say so Even when California burns🔥 The Unpresidented President hides his own government’s…

“If you’re shepherding a crowd rather than just a bunch of people on your payroll, what’s different about that? And what’s different in the context of a world in which there is a very, very big hunger to participate?” — In the latest episode of FoossaPod, David Colby Reed and Lee-Sean Huang interview Jeremy Heimans, CEO of Purpose and co-author of the book New Power: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World–and How to Make It Work for You.

From a new book, to more podcast episodes and articles, this is a snapshot of what Foossa has been up to for the last few months. — From a new book, to more podcast episodes and articles, this is a snapshot of what Foossa has been up to for the last few months. Like us, you have probably received a whole bunch of GDPR-compliance updates over the last few weeks. Our terms and conditions haven’t changed. Foossa…

Whether it is a corporate design project, government policy, or awareness campaign, we’re relying on tools that were designed to move individual widgets. — In the latest episode of FoossaPod, I talk with Andrew Benedict-Nelson about social norms as a key to innovation. We discuss ways to rethink responses to homelessness and make sense of movements like LGBTQ equality and #MeToo. Andrew Benedict-Nelson is a social change practitioner, historian, and author of See Think…