The culture of risk aversion in gov leads to public servants viewing themselves as stewards of taxpayer dollars, responsible for accounting for precisely how money is spent; rather than stewards of complex social systems, responsible for enabling ppl to live flourishing lives.
— Thea Snow (@theasnow) July 26, 2021
Fascinating thing just now — I’m writing a usability testing report with a client. We had a prototype, tested it, made changes to the prototype and then tested it again. He pointed out that his stakeholders would not read “we made changes after round 1” as normal iteration.
Instead, they would see any instance of “we made changes” as “we made an error and we needed to correct it”.
Some users think they’re in a global Slack room for journalists, creatives, and other media people to share ideas and pass the time and many others believe they’re in a 24/7 info war for digital supremacy.
– Ryan Broderick’s Garbage Day
The next whatever you buy should be more carbon-conscious. If we do that, we could probably be ok.
My friend Anne spoke at a graduate students conference recently.
We love @annegalloway’s precis of her praxis: Deeply curious, easily bored and highly suspicious of the academy #AusSTS2021 #STS #AcademicTwitter
— Australasian STS Graduate Network (@AusSTSgrad) June 24, 2021
I’d like to think I approach my work that way.