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Published in Rare Animals

·Oct 20, 2020

Human centered design isn’t the problem

The problem is our choice to only center certain humans “I’ve recently begun to seriously doubt how much I can congratulate myself for the seeming progressiveness of this pursuit,” writes Euan Fraser, Innovation Principal, Senior Brand Strategist at REI. “It doesn’t scale,” Jesse Weaver, Director of Entrepreneurial Design at CMCI…

Human Centered Design

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Human centered design isn’t the problem
Human centered design isn’t the problem

Feb 7, 2019

Lessons from a failed space shuttle launch: why wonder drives our best work

Henry Petroski opens his postmortem of the 1986 Columbia space shuttle disaster with a quote from aerospace pioneer Theodore von Kármán. Scientists, Kármán famously writes, discover the world that exists. Engineers create the world that never was. Now a civil engineer on the faculty at Duke University, Petroski alleges the…

NASA

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Lessons from a failed space shuttle launch: why wonder drives our best work
Lessons from a failed space shuttle launch: why wonder drives our best work

Aug 11, 2018

To my Middle Eastern-American son,

To my Middle Eastern-American son, You started kicking, just four weeks ago. I felt it first like the desperate flutters of nerves before speaking before a crowd. A week later, I delighted your Dad when I said I couldn’t find a description for what I was feeling inside except to…

Family

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To my Middle Eastern-American son,
To my Middle Eastern-American son,

Published in Human Parts

·Jul 7, 2018

Homeschooled to Hell and Back

Evangelicalism tore my family apart; death brought us back together — If I could trace the years of my childhood in the warm, Sacramento sun back to a single name, it would be R.J. Rushdoony — the father of Christian Reconstructionism, and, by many people’s definition, the strongest inspiration for the modern Christian homeschool movement. In 1963, Rushdoony launched his ideas…

Christianity

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Homeschooled to Hell and Back
Homeschooled to Hell and Back
Shanley Harruthoonyan

Shanley Harruthoonyan

Systems change entrepreneur. Human rights advocate. Mama. Wife.

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