People tend to agree on what certain types of clothes mean. Adolescent girls can easily agree on the lifestyles of girls who wear certain outfits, including the number of boyfriends they likely have had and whether they smoke or drink. Newscasters, or the announcers who read the news on TV...
Along with their punning on the work’s title, the pointer-shaped open books’ re-arrangeability and their gameboard text suggest a playful invitation to consider how we imagine, mythologize, redefine and map what seems to us to be empty space challenging our place in it. Facing Again (20...
So the author gathered a collection of odd books, including "Impotence in the Male," "Hitler Laughing: Comedy in the Third Reich," and "Beginning Greek," and attempted to encourage people to buy them. He concluded that some books only sold because he was able to either manipulate the ...
The web has become a noisy place with millions of companies trying to get users’ attention. No wonder many of them apply increasingly desperate techniques to encourage users to act on their websites. We’ve seen an explosion ofdark patternsattempting to manipulate users into handing over persona...
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It is just the same as How to Win Friends and Influence People, but from a different perspective. Learn how to manipulate people for a good cause. The Personal MBA I believe that a project manager should understand the business to some extent. This book provides a core set of knowledge. ...
I adored Emira, and Alix made me cringe on so many levels—partly for the mirror reflection personally, partly because I know people just like her. But at the end of the day this book had me examining what it means to be an ally, to be anti-racist, and how my words and actions ha...
Making time to listen is how we begin healing the broken relationship between businesses (& systems) and people. Product design strategy often seeks to change a person’s buying decisions or to manipulate a person’s behavior. Such a product-focused mindset has driven our organizations into a ...
Superstitious folk, such as tech journalists, have a belief that LLMs can actually understand language; very superstitious folk, such as professional linguists, even believe that language can be ‘understood’ merely by knowing how to manipulate words. This is an error, as Searle showed with ...
Either way, most people can’t identify what it is in the abstract.❧ definition: bookiness Does this only come out because there’s something that’s book-tangential or similar and it needs to exist to describe the idea of not-book, book-adjacent, or book-like on some sort of spectr...