Category: politics

• critical thinking politics pop culture virtual worlds

  ready player one

  **lots of spoilers ahead** I read Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One with my daughter — a bookworm and avid video game player — and was pleasantly surprised by what we found: a dystopian future where jobs are scant, mega-corporations control critical infrastructure and stop at nothing to grow and consolidate…

  May 19, 2025
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  towards good collaboration

  This is a list of principles for collaboration from an expert on what doesn’t work: Be compassionate. If you’re in a design critique, be critical and encouraging. Good critique should be encouraging. It’s not helpful to diminish someone’s excitement to work on their project. Be helpful. I’ve been in too…

  August 7, 2018