A film about the Stripe Partners Studio
Over at Stripe Partners we’ve shot a film of our studio process. Studios are our way of ensuring that the benefits of an ethnographic approach to developing understanding are shared […]
Gall's Law
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up […]
Love and Service
“It is not difficult to see why we are so keen to widen our knowledge and why we are so little concerned to increase our capacity to love – knowledge […]
This whole information business
One of the many revelations from reading Jon Gertner’s magisterial history of Bell Labs, is learning more about the story of Claude Shannon. He was one of any visionaries at […]
Anthropology & design
“Anthropology provides a kind of thick description that contextualises design processes and products, and design offers anthropology creative means of exploring and representing what it means to be human” anne […]
Stripe Partners
Earlier in the week we pressed the button on a new company website. The business is called Stripe Partners – and although the founding partners have been working together for […]
The state of digital
A long but comprehensive ‘state of digital world’ presentation from Business Insider. The future of digital from Useful Ideas
Imagination
From the 2012 Jefferson Lecture by Wendell E Barry “The term “imagination” in what I take to be its truest sense refers to a mental faculty that some people have […]
Unaccustomed earth
“Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil. My children […]
Self portrait
Breathtaking picture by a Japanese astronaut on the ISS via. There’s another, much earlier one, here.