Fast Company:

Simplify cuts down on the visual noise of Gmail’s right and left sidebars, eliminating them, and hiding them under pull-up and drop-down menus. It moves all of the core functions–like delete and archive–to the top bar. And there’s a lot of room on top to take advantage of, since Simplify gets rid of the prominent search bar in Gmail, and tucks it away to the right corner.

Zalig! Op ’t werk gebruiken we Gmail en ik haat die web interface. Dit ziet er al veel bruikbaarder uit.

Rechtstreekse link.

John Gruber, podcaster:

These companies are trying to usurp the word podcast for one simple reason: people love podcasts. What I think and hope they are missing is that part of what people love about podcasts is the openness. It’s one of the last remaining areas of the internet that works exactly as the internet was intended to work.

Daarom dat het mij ook zo tegensteekt dat De Standaard over podcasts blijft spreken, terwijl het gewoon radioreportages of zelfs “shows” zijn die ze aan hun abonnees aanbieden in hun eigen app.

Ik heb daar totaal geen probleem mee dat ze dat doen, het is een goeie vorm om ook als krant een mediamix aan te bieden. Maar noem het geen podcasts.

Geniale podcastaflevering:

In the episode of the Making Sense podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Roger McNamee about his book Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe.

PJ Van Leemputten heeft overschot van gelijk:

Hoeveel transparanter zouden (politieke) advertenties zijn mochten we simpelweg weten welk individu ze plaatst of er de opdracht voor geeft?

Maar dit viel me toch ook op:

Die grote bedrijven halen hun informatie ook ergens. En ja, je zou bij een advertentie moeten kunnen zie wie daarvoor betaald heeft. Maar ook waar Facebook de informatie gehaald heeft die de adverteerder gebruikt om jou te targetten.

Leo Babauta:

From this place, notice the other person — they are acting the way they’re acting because they are feeling some kind of pain themselves. Maybe they’re feeling insecure, anxious, worried about the future. Maybe they are hurt by something you did and are themselves lashing out in frustration. Well, you can understand that! You are feeling the same thing. In this way, the two of you are connected.

Dagelijkse strijd, dit.

Arthur C. Brooks:

To me, politics is like the weather — it changes a lot, people drone on about it constantly, and “good” is mostly subjective. I like winter, you like summer; you’re a liberal, I’m a conservative. (…) My passion is ideas, especially policy ideas. While politics is like the weather, ideas are like the climate. Climate has an impact on weather, but they’re different things. 

Forbes:

The point is that Pornhub is once again behaving better than more corporations these days, reaching out to our hearts and minds rather than just our genitals in order to bring awareness to something that is damaging this world.

Natuurlijk kennen we het bedrijf niet 🤥, maar die hun marketing is toch echt van het hoogste niveau, hoor.

NPR:

In the past 20 years, psychologists and neurologists have started to look at how empathy actually works, in our brains and our hearts, when we’re not thinking about it. And one thing they’ve found is that “one of the strongest triggers for human empathy is observing some kind of conflict between two other parties,” says Fritz Breithaupt, a professor at Indiana University who studies empathy. “Once they take the side, they’re drawn into that perspective. And that can lead to very strong empathy and too strong polarization with something you only see this one side and not the other side any longer.”

Recode:

In a separate study still under review about how news stories are passed around the internet like a giant game of telephone, Melumad and her colleagues found that as stories get further from their initial source, people know fewer and fewer details about what actually happened. So they offer up their opinions instead.