Worth Your Attention

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• Anna Goldfarb in The New York Times: “Whether you’re having a cozy chat with your far-flung besties, or plan on dropping in to a video chat room filled with dozens of strangers, here’s what to know about having a successful virtual happy hour.”

• The Harvard Business Review on how managers can support remote employees.

• Stephen Anderson on how to run successful remote workshops.

• Allan Chochinov on how to hold a virtual graduation ceremony.

• “Space, as it relates to infectious disease epidemics, isn’t just about quarantine; it’s also a design problem.” Design in the age of pandemics.

• “Instead of focusing on the user, how might we instead design for whole, interdependent systems?” Alexis Lloyd on the unintended consequences of user-centered design.

• “More than an encyclopedia, Wikipedia has become a community, a library, a constitution, an experiment, a political manifesto—the closest thing there is to an online public square.” Wikipedia as “the last best place on the internet.”

• Thoughts on Slack’s information architecture redesign.

• Spurred by the quarantine, I’ve been rethinking how I use social networks.

• The return of NASA’s mid-1970s “worm” logo as evidence for nostalgia for the future.