Austin Govella

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Morning everyone! I've moved my account from mastodon.social to @austingovella
WX, UX, and collaborationhttps://agux.co/blog
#UX and #InformationArchitecture Bookshttps://agux.co/books
Morning everyone! I've moved my account from mastodon.social to PKM.social
Hey, if you're looking for a substack alternative, I highly recommend Buttondown.email. My nearly 9 year old newsletter is on Buttondown.email after starting out on tinyletter and a brief stint on Substack. It makes a big difference paying for the service -- and I still get more net subscription revenue than I did on Substack. There's automatic migration and Justin, the owner, was fantastic and helped with mine.
‘Sensemaking is the ability or attempt to make sense of an ambiguous situation. More exactly, sensemaking is the process of creating situational awareness and understanding in situations of high complexity or uncertainty in order to make decisions. It is “a motivated, continuous effort to understand connections (which can be among people, places, and events) in order to anticipate their trajectories and act effectively.”’
– Gary Klein, Brian Moon and Robert Hoffman, Making Sense of Sensemaking
@jarango where did The Informed Life logo come from? It’s really interesting and iconic.

“.. the omission of Thomas Jefferson’s enslaved chef, James Hemings, who was the mastermind behind many of America’s favorite dishes including macaroni and cheese. His erasure is part of a theme that’s permeated written history itself.”

📝 by Joseph Lamour

#food #history #slavery
https://www.today.com/food/people/james-hemings-mac-and-cheese-enslaved-chef-thomas-jefferson-rcna58226

James Hemings: The Enslaved Chef of Thomas Jefferson Who Created Mac and Cheese

Thomas Jefferson's enslaved chef James Hemings was the mastermind behind many of America’s favorite dishes, including macaroni and cheese, a dish Jefferson took credit for.

TODAY

A monument to Lenin transformed into a statue of Darth Vader in Odesa, #Ukraine

#art #starwars #stopwars

The László Nagy laboratory has published a beautiful and detailed fungal tree of life of microscopic diversity. You can Download it in high resolution!!!

#micology #biology #treeoflife #mondaymood #biodiversity #microscopic_life #microscopic #fungal #fungalturn

Link: http://group.szbk.u-szeged.hu/sysbiol/nagy-laszlo-lab-poster.html

László Nagy Laboratory

Our goal is to construct an improved, minimal genome E. coli to serve both as a reduced-complexity model organism, and as a programmable cellular chassis for biotechnological applications.

Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do and do the last thing on the list

#ObliqueStrategies

Two Stanford Professors Explain How to Produce Hundreds of World-Changing Ideas In 1 Hour

#DesignThinking #Brainstorming

https://buff.ly/3tTNwhH #mst

Two Stanford Professors Explain How to Produce World-Changing Ideas In 1 Hour

Nobody likes a brainstorm, and they don't work. Here's a better way to come up with ideas.

Entrepreneur
Strategy, Facilitation and Visual Thinking » { design@tive } information design

In this post, I'll talk about some of the visual thinking techniques that can be drawn from design thinking, data analytics, system thinking, game storming, and lean start-up.

{ design@tive } information design