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Learning Muscles | mistergough

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Stuff that isn't elsewhere. September 25, 2014. Weight training works by pushing muscles to breaking point and then allowing them to recover, and grow. Formal education doesn’t work this way. It supports and guides, providing children with a safe environment to acquire knowledge. We already exerience information overload, so it seems pretty likely that a couple of key skills for our future society will be the ability to learn and the ability to filter. So, how do we prepare children for this reality?

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About | mistergough

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Stuff that isn't elsewhere. I blog all over the place – for my work, for others, for projects. But this is where I write the random stuff. If you’re looking for themes then you could look at the following places (not all my own work, some of them just a sprinkling):. 8211; my main business. Service Design, stuff with post-it notes, making things;. 8211; a long-running blog about simplicity I write with my wife;. 8211; my visual design business. I do graphic identities and clean, simple websites;. Enter y...

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Common Sense | mistergough

https://mistergough.wordpress.com/2014/08/14/common-sense-2

Stuff that isn't elsewhere. August 14, 2014. When I was growing up the adults in my life often judged me on the basis of something they called common sense. For them it was some sort of unquestionable constant. Its values helped them to assert their dominance over young people, children, me. Suffice to say, I lacked it. And the constant reminder that I lacked it contributed in no small part in my growth from an awkward, unsure child to an awkward, unsure teenager. Do they know how to hold a hammer? Cling...

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Think Piece | mistergough

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Stuff that isn't elsewhere. January 15, 2015. Blog commenting systems have evolved very little since their inception. One of the more interesting examples of some kind of evolution was Branch’s inline commenting system; part of the platform’s attempt to encourage thoughts-in-progress rather than finished pieces. One of my favourite ideas development approaches is World Café. Its primary focus is to promote conversation, half-formed thoughts, as a means of drawing out the good stuff. To do that it...The p...

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Group Love | mistergough

https://mistergough.wordpress.com/2014/11/23/group-love

Stuff that isn't elsewhere. November 23, 2014. Facebook’s recent release of a standalone Group app and its less recent Messaging app are indicators of something important in the way we use social networks. All new apps seem to want to replicate the fundamental dynamics of Twitter or Facebook. The thing is, the longer Twitter and Facebook go unchallenged, the harder it gets to compete with a platform that embeds itself more into our lives the longer we use it. But Facebook’s unbundling of its core f...

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Open Data Camp | mistergough

https://mistergough.wordpress.com/2015/02/23/open-data-camp

Stuff that isn't elsewhere. February 23, 2015. Last weekend I attended Open Data Camp in Winchester; my first ever “Camp”. As someone who works primarily in design, attending designey events for designers, I’m not used to taking part in the more tech/data end of the events spectrum so I wanted to get my thoughts down. So, general experiences aside, a few things that stood out for me. My concern is around where we go next. For me, some of the most useful data, the most vital, is going to come from out...

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Economic Thinking | mistergough

https://mistergough.wordpress.com/2014/07/17/economic-thinking

Stuff that isn't elsewhere. July 17, 2014. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that most of the world’s problems are directly caused by either:. A A misunderstanding of economics. B A misuse of economics. And yet, an understanding of economics seems to be incredibly rare, whether it’s a general understanding we all share or the deep understanding we expect from those in charge. How many of the worst periods in our history have exploited a lack of economic thinking? I personally believe that economics i...

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Stuff that isn't elsewhere. July 17, 2014. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that most of the world’s problems are directly caused by either:. A A misunderstanding of economics. B A misuse of economics. And yet, an understanding of economics seems to be incredibly rare, whether it’s a general understanding we all share or the deep understanding we expect from those in charge. How many of the worst periods in our history have exploited a lack of economic thinking? I personally believe that economics i...

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Principles and Architecture | mistergough

https://mistergough.wordpress.com/2015/07/23/principles-and-architecture

Stuff that isn't elsewhere. July 23, 2015. How do we build design principles into the deepest architecture of things, into the algorithms and mechanisms? It goes deeper than an ethos or mission. Those things change, get re-evaluated. Good intent can be reduced to a veneer while the core values are dismantled and exploited. But what if something couldn’t exist at all without the complete set of design principles? Like a human body, every system present and functioning or no life at all. Next post →. You a...