Nicole Weber
2017-04-07
Pointing and Calling
Known in Japanese as shisa kanko, pointing-and-calling works on the principle of associating one’s tasks with physical movements and vocalizations to prevent errors by “raising the consciousness levels of workers”—according to the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, Japan. Rather than rely on a worker’s eyes or habit alone, each step in a given task is reinforced physically and audibly to ensure the step is both complete and accurate.
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pointing-and-calling-japan-trains https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_and_calling
2017-03-10
2017-01-31
ZEITmagazin ONLINE: Mr. Gibson, warum gibt es noch Bücher?
Gibson: Weil alle Alternativen nicht befriedigend sind. Ein physisches Objekt, das 300 unterschiedliche Screenshots darstellt, aber keine Elektrizität benötigt und für die Ewigkeit ist, wenn Sie es einigermaßen warm und trocken halten, ist eine verblüffende, hochmoderne Technologie. Mit der ersten elektromagnetischen Pulswaffe, die über Ihrer Stadt ausgelöst wird, werden alle anderen Informationen zerstört sein. Aber Ihr Buch ist noch da.
2024
2016-02-29
Whatever you do, don’t do it alone
Sounds like the title of a slush or of a horror movie or the advice of a cycle racing coach to her team and it probably is. But it’s also a common theme in projects I worked in lately – which makes me happy and grateful.
It’s rewarding to work on products that allow people to help each other out and to work together. Products that build bridges and connections. Products that emphasize the common ground one shares with others instead of the differences.
2016-02-27
Turn off all your notifications
Books that take a critical look at how we use social media and its impact. Excerpts from a book review by Jacob Weisberg.
But the more you read about it, the more you may come to feel that we’re in the middle of a new Opium War, in which marketers have adopted addiction as an explicit commercial strategy. This time the pushers come bearing candy-colored apps.
2016-02-23
“Needs more love.” Best damn advice I’ve ever gotten. You can keep your practicality and your action items and your take-aways. You can have your instructional advice, your recipes, your prescribed steps to fulfillment, and your ladder-climbing. (...)
The only thing that matters is that we care more than we already do about the people and places and projects that we give our time and attention. We’ve got to believe in the stuff.
– Frank Chimero
2016-02-20