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• Humanities Crash Course Week 19: Bhagavad Gita

• Humanities Crash Course Week 18: 1,001 Nights

• Humanities Crash Course Week 17: Curiositas

• Humanities Crash Course Week 16: The Art of War

• Humanities Crash Course Week 15: Boethius

• Humanities Crash Course Week 14: Roman Decadence

• Humanities Crash Course Week 13: The Qur’an

• Humanities Crash Course Week 12: Suetonius

• Humanities Crash Course Week 11: Stoicism

• Humanities Crash Course Week 10: Greek Drama

• The New Leverage: AI and the Power of Small Teams

• Humanities Crash Course Week 9: The Bible

• Book Notes: “A Thousand Brains”

• Humanities Crash Course Week 8: Ancient Egypt

• Humanities Crash Course Week 7: Gilgamesh

• Book Notes: “Co-Intelligence”

• Humanities Crash Course Week 6: Herodotus

• Humanities Crash Course Week 5: Eudaemonia

• Humanities Crash Course Week 4: Confucius

• Humanities Crash Course Week 3: The Odyssey

• Humanities Crash Course Week 2: Greek Poetry

• Humanities Crash Course Week 1: Plato

• A Crash Course in the Humanities

• Book Notes: “Nexus”

• The Informed Life with Stéphanie Walter

• Three Things I Know

• Why I'm Excited About Generative AI

• Information Architects Must Embrace AI

• The Informed Life with Joey deVilla

• Shaping the Future of Design

• Five Future Roles for Designers

• The Informed Life with Alex Wright

• Seeing Further

• The Hair Metal Disclaimer

• Book Notes: “How the World Really Works”

• The Informed Life with Howard Rheingold

• Book Notes: “The Dream Machine”

• Overcoming the Scarcity of Context

• Wikimedia's New Leader on Preventing Misinformation

• Jimmy Wales on Constraints for Bad Behavior

• TAOI: The “Ethnic” Aisle

• Book Notes: “Wanting”

• How to Use Social Media Without Losing Equanimity

• The Informed Life with Kat Vellos

• Book Notes: “The Revolt of the Public”

• Worth Your Attention

• Privacy and Metadata

• The Assault on U.S. Democracy

• Making a Scene

• Structural Antidotes for Misinformation

• The Informed Life With Nataly Restrepo

• Software and Dematerialization

• The Electronic Whole Earth Catalog

• Addressing Systemic Racial Injustice

• Design in the Post-pandemic World

• Five Lessons From the Pandemic

• “We Will Meet Again”

• Nostalgia for the Future

• A Tune For These Times

• Worth Your Attention

• Banning Targeted Advertising?

• Come Together (in Information Environments)

• Efficiency and Redundancy

• The Informed Life With Nicholas Paul Brysiewicz

• The Dynamics of Remote All-hands Meetings

• The Quality of Impromptu Online Work

• Legislating the Structure of Information Environments

• Coronavirus and Remote Collaboration

• Book Notes: “The Optimist’s Telescope”

• Reid Hoffman on Language, Big Tech, and Society

• The Pull of the Present

• How Social Media Warps Democracy

• The Golden Age of Learning Anything

• You Are Being Tracked

• Mind Your Manners Online

• Preserving Open Source Software for the Long Term

• The Capital and the Village

• Causes of (and Remedies for) Bias in AI

• Worth Your Attention

• Being Open to Unsettling Changes

• Binge Faster

• Quantum Supremacy

• TAOI: Facebook’s Electoral Interference Changes

• Paola Antonelli on the Role of Designers

• Perspective on “Digital”

• TAOI: Facebook Hiding Likes

• Collaborating by Default

• The Informed Life With Eduardo Ortiz

• The Synthesizers In Charge

• Are Dating Apps Making Marriages Stronger?

• Table Stakes

• Ethics and Patience in Design

• Progress Studies

• Neal Stephenson on Social Media

• Apollo 11 at Fifty

• Designing for Density and Sequence

• The Treachery of Deepfakes

• Design for Long-Term Relevance

• On “Content”

• Information Metaphors

• The Optimism of Design

• Hitched to Everything Else

• TAOI: YouTube Subscriber Counts

• Proudshamed

• Informing and Persuading

• When Everything is Connected

• A Change of Mindset

• Daniel Kahneman on Framing and Incentives

• Designers as Advocates of Respect

• EPCOT

• Back to the Browser Monoculture?

• Introductions in the Age of Social Networks

• From the Digital Town Square to the Living Room

• The Cognition Crisis

• Brexit Explained

• Bertrand Russell’s Advice for Future Generations

• The Role of Structure in Digital Design

• A Bold Example of Semantic Pollution

• Book Notes: ‘The Evolution of Everything’

• Where Innovation Comes From

• An Economy of Deception

• A Community In Search of a Home

• Facebook’s Reverse Halo

• The Role of Advertisers in Shaping Digital Ecosystems

• The Eponymous Laws of Tech

• Digital Nutrition

• Kranzberg’s Laws of Technology

• Is It Time To Leave Facebook?

• The Complexity Gap

• The Mother of All Demos at 50

• Innovation and the Test of Time

• Book Notes: “Stubborn Attachments”

• Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview

• Goodbye Google+

• How Do You Know What’s True?

• A Human Queue

• Unfriending the Baby With the Bathwater

• Where Are the People?

• Resilience

• What is a Healthy Society?

• A Self-Saving World

• The Purpose of Computers

• Enabling Transactions

• The End of Engagement

• TAOI: Nutrition Facts Labels

• Getting at the Real Meaning of Things

• Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free

• Why Doesn’t the New York Times Have a Digital Design Critic?

• Responsibility

• Book Notes: "Enlightenment Now"

• Growing Your Area of Concern

• The More You Can Escape, the Worse Things Get

• The Stream

• The Call

• A Call for a More Holistic Approach to Business

• Prescriptive and Descriptive Labels

• Corporations and the Golden Lotus World

• Book Notes: “Textos Cautivos”

• Invisible Technologies

• Internet Sabbatical 2017 Edition

• A Thought on Christmas Morning

• Self-image Ideals

• Third Places

• We'll See

• Towards a More Resilient Internet

• Form and Context

• Book Notes: "Technically Wrong"

• Listening to Women

• The Problem Is Not Social Media per Se

• Book Notes: "WTF?"

• TAOI: Picadilly Lights

• Can We Build Community by Selling Our Attention?

• TAOI: Hoodmaps

• Move Fast and Brake

• Of Molders and Dancers

• Sad for Venezuela

• Deep Context

• Architecture as Cultural and Location Grounding

• The IA Meme