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The Honest Ulsterman
I've published my latest short story on Medium. It's called The Honest Ulsterman. It's about a families decision to emigrate from Northern Ireland amidst The Troubles, to build a better future for themselves and their children. You can read it here:
https://medium.com/@hughmcfall/the-honest-ulsterman-7751f046fe3b
I hope you enjoy it - if you have any feedback, I'd love to hear it!
“Design mindfulness” has got to be in everything you do—down to the littlest thing. Even the language you use in your e-mails. There’s a character to communications. There’s a character to business. It’s how you live in the world.
Tom Peters
"We’ve solved the problems of food, water, shelter, and security for many of us on this side of the planet. Knowing this, the next step of challenges require adding, contributing, and critiquing the fruits of our abundance, those that fall in the categories of the arts, humanities, and technology.
Take the brush, dob it paint, and make your mark. Don’t worry about self-identifying as an artist and all the baggage we’re taught to associate with being one. Just go ahead and do it."
Quote of the day from Humayun Khan in his article, "Experimenting with your limits"
The most powerful person in the world is the storyteller. The storyteller sets the vision, values and agenda of an entire generation that is to come."
- Steve Jobs
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"When you wake up, you have this gift of a blank brain. You could fill it with anything. But for most of us, we have this kind of panic. Instead of wondering what should I do, we wonder what did I miss. Its almost like our unconsciousness is a kind of failure and we can’t believe we’ve been offline for eight hours,” he says. It is habits like this that are insidious, not the internet itself. It is a personal thing."
From a Quartz interview with author Michael Harris
"Paul's a perfect intertwining of a pure artist and somebody whose very astute at solving business problems. It's the marriage of those two things I think, the very very practical, and the artist, that's unique."
Steve Jobs's reflections on Paul Rand, legendary graphic designer.
Nighthawks @ Maison Publique, Montreal
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"Mating our left-brained technical wizardry with our right-brained humanizing intuitions is key to innovation, but don’t make the mistake of confusing “design” with “art.” I’d argue that there’s a difference, and it matters. Designers create solutions – the products and services that propel us forward. But artists create questions — the deep probing of purpose and meaning that sometimes takes us backward and sideways to reveal which way “forward” actually is. The questions that artists make are often enigmatic, answering a why with another why. Because of this, understanding art is difficult: I like to say that if you’re having difficulty “getting” art, then it’s doing its job."
John Maeda in WIRED: http://wrd.cm/1uY9TfI
I am trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across - not to just depict life - or criticize it - but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can't believe in it. Things aren't that way. It is only by showing both sides - 3 dimensions and if possible 4 that you can write the way I want to. So when you see anything of mine that you don't like remember that I'm sincere in doing it and that I'm working toward something.
Ernest Hemingway
"Looking at art, we learn about ourselves. Comparing views on art, we learn about one another. Disputing it, we shape culture. Where there is no argument there can be no consequentially meaningful art."
- Peter Schjeldahl on the "Art Everywhere" project
"But you can’t solve or let go of problems if you don’t allow yourself time to think about them. It’s an imperative ignored by our culture, which values doing more than thinking and believes answers are in the palm of your hand rather than in your own head."
From the fantastic New York Times article, "No Time To Think". Read it here: http://buff.ly/1ogMqkc
Materialism can make us happy, if we do it right
You buy things to meet one or a combination of three psychological needs:
1. Identity expression (to reflect your true values)
2. Competence (to use or develop skills and knowledge)
3. Relatedness (to bring us close to others)
Meeting these needs helps you live a happier life. So, how can you best spend your money to make yourself happier?
It's often said that an effective way to live a happier life is to spend your money on life experiences, not material items. As the story goes, you'll be much happier if you go to a concert with friends than if you buy new clothes for yourself. But, as a new study has found, past research on this subject has ignored a third driver of consumption as it relates to happiness: "experiential products."
Experiential products are items that “engage our senses”. These are items that enable intellectual, creative, and athletic achievement. Examples include: books, films, paintings, a pencil and notebook, a paintbrush and canvas, a basketball and net, and a musical instrument.
When you buy and use these experiential products, they are just as effective as the revered “life experience” as a means to live a happier life. These are material items, but you can use them to express yourself, to get smarter and healthier. The researchers found, consistent with past research, that while buying material objects like clothes and jewellery can be help you express yourself and connect with others, it is not as effective as buying an experiential product or life experience.
But experiential products and life experiences aren’t interchangeable. The study also found that while life experiences and experiential products are similar in their ability to meet identity expression needs, experiential products are better when it comes to becoming more competent, while life experiences are better at helping you connect with others. In other words, when you want to achieve something, buy the corresponding experiential product. If you're lonely and want to be close to others, life experiences are the way to go.
In my opinion, money can't buy complete happiness. But if we spend it properly, it can help. Don't depend on sports cars and jewellery as your ticket to well-being. Instead, buy both life experiences and experiential products and you'll be well on your way.
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“It’s really important for technology to be humanized" - Cynthia Breazeal, Founder & CEO of Jibo
I think what's important with the Jibo is that it's a robot that is as human as it should be.
They haven't created a robot that attempts to look, feel, move, and act like a human. Instead, it appears that the driving ethos behind Jibo is that while technology can improve our lives, it can best do so through human-centred design, to delicately balance the power of technology with true human needs.
At the core of this, I think, lies the question: what is the limitation of technology, not from a capabilities perspective, but from a human perspective?
When designing technology products, we shouldn't start with what we "could" do technologically, but rather, with what we "should" do to meet a human need. I think the Jibo is a great example of the latter.
Buddhism is “The Middle Way” and therefore in no way antagonistic to physical well-being. It is not wealth that stands in the way of liberation but the attachment to wealth; not the enjoyment of pleasurable things but the craving for them
Spectacular exploration of the "Buddhist Economics" concept, first introduced by E.F. Schumacher. Read it here.
BuzzFeed offers a transfixing cultural snapshot of our times because of its pure distillation of this American urge: the manic-cheeriness-at-gunpoint feeling that saturates our culture. The BuzzFeed formula — not just personalizing pop trivia, but treating it as an inexorable element of our emotional makeup — feels like the natural outcome of several decades of plug-in room deodorizers and Toyotathons and hamburger-slinging clowns. Our responses are predetermined and mandatory. Each button suggests the appropriate emotional reaction. And there are no buttons inscribed with the word “sad” or “unsettling” or “melancholy.” Wisdom, in our modern world, may boil down to recognizing that LOL and fail and trashy and omg don’t actually represent different categories of human experience.
A brilliant piece from NY Times Magazine: 794 Ways in Which Buzzfeed Reminds Us of Impending Death