2021: January’s Bookshelf
Notes on some of the books I read in January 2021.
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Category: Inspiration
Ten Timeframes
On spending users’ heartbeats wisely: Paul Ford’s closing keynote at the 2012 MFA Interaction Design Festival.
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Sunscreen
The widely misattributed commencement address that was never a commencement address at all.
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J.G. Ballard’s introduction to Crash
A remarkably prescient 24-year-old piece of writing from J.G. Ballard.
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You are your own stories
Toni Morrison on critical thinking, hope, and a reminder that we don’t have to accept the labels bestowed upon us by others.
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Make good art
Neil Gaiman on the breaking the rules, the fraud police, fantastic mistakes, and making good art.
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The works of Renzo Picasso
Born in 1880 in Genoa, this engineer and architect, had grand designs indeed.
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Collective nouns, and quiddling until quafftide
Old words, new wordplay and why I think Susie Dent is the best thing on Twitter.
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