names context
Names are informationally rich
Names are the first blush of identity. They are also culture. They can be family, and geography, and status, and career.
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names context
Current US standard
Our current norm for names in IT is US centric. It’s not even language centric, because England has a multiplicity of potential that isn’t the norm in the US and is not supported.
names context
Internal culture
The internal culture of the business is what defined how we developed for names, and will be a sticking point as it shifts. Two things are important to keep in mind, especially in early days.
social fractals
Reach for a different model
Our society is shifting, and patterns are evolving. There are behaviors and actions gaining steam on multiple fronts, and what the future looks like will ultimately be decided by lots of individuals either caving, or holding the line, or deciding that there's another option. This social fractal is
movements
Weighting, synopsis
information literacy
Dealing with a binary argument
These are the patterns I've been leveraging for years to suss out where people just wanted others to shut up. Because that is the real goal behind why they are seeking a binary answer: "We're doing this, shut up." How it happens is diverse,
social fractals
The trailhead: smudging the binary
Humanity rocks, but we're also in an informational pickle. The current ground For a very few people (and anyone with pockets deep enough to pay for a sliver), the information world is great, never better, wishes falling into a 'granted' state at an incredible pace. Data
movements
Garbage in, garbage out
Our ongoing formulation of what-is truth Truth is hard. It’s ultimately a binary state attributed to a complex compilation and interpretation of a set of data and information. It’s leveraged as a springboard into decision making, cultural norms, and even society-level agreements. It is a characteristic that is
contextualization
Humanity rocks
It's the thread through this entire site, but just to be unequivocal: Humanity rocks. Yeah, we've got our problem children (some of them closer to centenarian than baby; age is a state of mind!). But overall, I like us. The problem children are the exception, not
riffpoints
A little realism about design software
I consider design architecture to be the suite of ready-set tools a designer can turn to in order to work in brand. To get the full spectrum of what's being designed, it takes multiple softwares with different focal points. Design systems and riffpoints architecture are hamstrung by design
social fractals
Looking at authoritarianism as steeped deeply in binary cognition
Acknowledging that cognition can be built to be steeped deeply in binaries helps me understand why our attempts to bridge with empathy fails. They literally cannot see other options. If we want something different, we have to shut down their access to think they can make decisions for us. This
abstractions
Getting to binary isn't...binary
Current information technology hardware functions on a binary substrate of ones and zeros translated to electric gates (highly simplified!!), with lots of programming layers between that substrate and the code. That code controlling the hardware is something most of us don't understand. Over that, we're layering