Adam Hart

Nov 22, 2024 | humanparts.medium.com | Adam Hart

Dr. Adam Hart·FollowPublished inHuman Parts·8 min read·--My first proper bike — a 1970’s era Raleigh with gear change on the down tube. One weekend as a child, I recall it was slightly warm but not too warm, a bit overcast, maybe it had just rained just a bit; the word went around the neighbourhood. Like a message that you can’t quite know how you heard it, or where it came from, we just knew. The warehouse down the road had caught on fire, and it was storing fireworks.

Nov 4, 2024 | uxdesign.cc | Adam Hart

Should we ever experience artificial general intelligence? Why believing we can make intelligence independent of ourselves is delusional and wasteful, but is so “us”. Writing Doom — Award-Winning Short Film on Superintelligence (2024) —cf. Future of Life Institute“But the story of humanity, and much of its beauty, is the struggle of the good against the powerful forces that generate misery.”— No, Sam Altman, AI Won’t Solve All Of Humanity’s Problems.

Oct 1, 2024 | thetimes.com | Adam Hart

What does your dad do?” is a question I have dreaded in my adult life. My invariable answer, “He works in property,” was deeply misleading, but I told myself it was not completely untrue. He did work in a property; it just happened to be the Palace of Westminster. It wasn’t always this way. When Dad was first elected in 2010, I was ten years old and didn’t understand what it meant. Seeing his name plastered around the county on election boards was fun.

Aug 26, 2024 | uxdesign.cc | John Davidson |Darren Yeo |Daley Wilhelm |Adam Hart |Fabricio Teixeira

Making good decisions, UX sociologists, a new workflow for UI animationsWeekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. “The genesis of agile was that we weren’t very good at software projects. Agile was one response to this, which became popular because it let everyone off the hook — ‘let’s not think hard now; it can wait.’The era of product management compounded the issue because it taught product managers to ‘follow the customer’ and the money would come.

Aug 15, 2024 | uxdesign.cc | Adam Hart

Let’s shitmix the algorithmYouTube is an Angry Librarian who is in love with Mr. Beast. Francis Bacon, Study of Red Pope, 1962, 2nd Version, 1971. © The Estate of Francis Bacon. Courtesy Christies.com“One only master grasps the whole domain,And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain:No more thy glassy brook reflects the day,But, choak’d with sedges, works its weedy way;”l.39-l.42, The Deserted Village, Oliver Goldsmith, 1770. Can we consider YouTube a Library anymore?