marniewebb

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by marniewebb 3y ago
Non programmer and I found Pragmatic Programming excellent. Help me problem solve better in general, communication better with our development team, and understand more about their processes.
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by marniewebb 3y ago
California resident here. Female and in what was then called junior high school when Senator Feinstein became Mayor of San Francisco. She was one the people who changed the profile of power. That profile can only change so much at a time an
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by marniewebb 3y ago
I love this thread. TV: On My Block, which has a lot in common with Reservation Dogs https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_My_Block Book: America Is Not The Heart, just a fantastic novel https://en.m.wikipedia.
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by marniewebb 3y ago
I’m currently involved in a project to develop a tech intervention to support outreach workers in providing emergency shelter to unhoused individuals[1]. Part of the goal is to get data on why people don’t accept available shelter and how t
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by marniewebb 3y ago
I have an information triage process that ends with DEVONThink. I save bookmarks to drafts app, go through them when I have time. And if they are worth it, I save then in DEVONThink where I go through and mark them up.
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by marniewebb 3y ago
I’ve used ChatGPT to generate value scenarios, possible use cases, and descriptions of use for internal white papers. If another colleague were helping with this, I’d credit them in the acknowledgements at minimum. If I had gotten a list fr
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by marniewebb 3y ago
This.
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by marniewebb 3y ago
I love https://rubyforgood.org/ they organize projects so there can be real impact.
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by marniewebb 3y ago
I get this worry. I didn’t read it this way though. I read it as being more about being conscious in choosing how to spend you time and not assuming that productivity leads to open amounts of person or quality time. I am lucky; I love the w
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by marniewebb 4y ago
My system is very much like this. I capture most things to Drafts app with a “to process” or “to read” tag. And then review and handle at least once a week. If it’s a resource that I want to refer back to (like how to do something or a tool
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by marniewebb 4y ago
H2O — https://h2o.law.harvard.edu/ — is a now-defunct collaborative syllabus project from Harvard that gets at a lot of this I think. It’s basically a list maker with a lot of additional capabilities. While it’s made for sm
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by marniewebb 4y ago
I think we have to separate caring for our fellow community members from and supporting people in being productive members of society. So many people are with stable homes because they weren’t able - for whatever reason — to be a productiv
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by marniewebb 4y ago
This feels like it could be solved partly, and more effectively, by a step wise show your work process. So if it’s Of Mice and Men, it could be a reading journal, then important points, then an outline, then an essay. If they successfully u
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by marniewebb 4y ago
I got my 18-year-old one of those Jensen cassette players for Xmas this year. She listens to it in bed with a pair of chunky audio technics headphones on. She likes listen to things that she handles and organizes and starts and stops in the
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by marniewebb 4y ago
My teenage daughter and I talk a lot about mental hygiene. We compare it to dental hygiene: you do stuff everyday to reduce the need to see a dentist and improve your experience when you do. The big things on the mental hygiene list are: -
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by marniewebb 4y ago
The artifact we often use is “zoom recording of the meeting.” Which is less than useful. For non-sensitive meetings, we record to otter and then edit the transcript using highlights, marking to dos, etc. We’ve got an otter folder structure
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by marniewebb 4y ago
I used Yahoo! Pipes to help manage the firehouse part of RSS. I filtered on keywords, used it manage duplicates across feeds and a few other things. It would be great to have that kind of functionality in a reader. Bookmarked https:/&
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by marniewebb 4y ago
As one of those business people, I find I’m not very good at requesting reports. There is a gap between what I think is interesting and what actually is interesting. I use spreadsheets (and sometimes visualization tools) to help bridge the
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by marniewebb 4y ago
Drafts app is awesome for quick capture and then to integrate with other systems for processing. The recording function for it works pretty well.
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by marniewebb 4y ago
Fiction: - Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli: mixes the personal and political so skillfully - The Magician by Colm Tóibín: Thomas Mann, the German, author is the main character. Shows our own moment in history in relief. Non-Fictio
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by marniewebb 4y ago
For me, what makes these tools useful is the time I spend in review. Which often feels like the opposite of productivity.
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by marniewebb 4y ago
Readwise or similar?
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by marniewebb 4y ago
+1 I adopted a cattle dog two years ago. A real habit builder.
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by marniewebb 4y ago
> Why? Because once it's written down there's a paper trail and accountability. This. It’s the hard part of getting people to commit to operational plans on the business side as well.
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by marniewebb 5y ago
I loved those books when I was in high school. I wonder how they’d hold up today.
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by marniewebb 5y ago
This reminds me of tinderbox - https://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/ Which I want to love but always feels like it has such a hard learning curve. I love how fun kinopio feels. Definitely taking it for a spin.
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by marniewebb 5y ago
From the abstract: “We intend to improve incentives in science by developing smart research contracts mediated by peer-to-peer review networks. These will collectively reward scientific contributions, including proposals, papers, replicatio
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A proposal to use smart contracts to improve scientific publishing(atoms.org)
4 points by marniewebb 5y ago|1 comments
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by marniewebb 6y ago
> What it is instead is a forum for trying to identify, discuss and address where existing pratices are unwittingly biased. For example, do the statistics of progression and departure in our organisation show any areas in which we'r
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by marniewebb 6y ago
This. Big tech -- and big pharma, and all the other bigs -- are built to be optimized with a system of shareholder value. They weren't built to optimize for civic engagement and thoughtful dialog. If we want the second -- some of it an

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