The Guardian
The lost art of concentration: being distracted in a digital world
20+ min · · We check our phones every 12 minutes, often just after waking up. Always-on behaviour is harmful to long-term mental health, and we need to learn to the hit the pause button · Shared by 1616, including Gabriele, Andreas Heer, Leo Babauta, Rachel Miller | #InfluencerMarketing, Dominik Grolimund, Harpreet Singh, John Battelle, Thomas Power, fernand0, Stefan Niemeyer, Mark Kaigwa, Ines Bieler, @ShannaPeeples@mastodon.nl, Mark Little, Sachin Rekhi, Klaus Eck, Josep M. Ganyet, Katja Evertz, Jane, Liliane Ferrari ™
medium.com
How to apply a design thinking, HCD, UX or any creative process from scratch
9 min · · This how-to article aims at providing designers, creative thinkers or even project managers with a tool to set up, frame, organise… · Shared by 347, including Nir Eyal, Matthias Lampe, kp, Vincenzo Tremonte, Parin Vachhani, Henning von Vogelsang, Ines Bieler, designshard, Philippe Gauvin, Evan (he/him), Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Mark Kaigwa, Bertrand Maltaverne, Stephanie A Kowalski, Chris Calo, Matthijs Kleverlaan, Abdelsalam Smadi, Gabriele, Janosch Tröhler, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷
eslbuzz.com
50+ Plain-Language Substitutions for Wordy Phrases
2 min · · Below is the list of 50+ pain-language substitutions for wordy phrases in English. Plain language is writing designed to ensure the reader understands as quickly, easily, and completely as possible.
blogs.windows.com
Microsoft Edge: Making the web better through more open source collaboration
4 min · · For the past few years, Microsoft has meaningfully increased participation in the open source software (OSS) community, becoming one of the world’s largest supporters of OSS projects. Today we’re… · Shared by 85, including Scott Hanselman 🌮, Steve "ardalis" Smith, Matteo Fogli, Ernie Smith is also @ernie@writing.exchange, DHH, fernand0, Chris Love - PWAs 📳📱& SEO 🔎, Jacob Jarnvall, sMyle is OOO, Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe, Baadier Sydow 🇿🇦
Inc.
Collaboration Kills Creativity, According to Science
4 min · · It's impossible to think out of the box when you're stuck inside a box with a bunch of other people. · Shared by 118, including Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Carl Morris, Jakub Ferenc, Tris Hussey, @mainec@fromm.social, ΛLΞX TRΞJʘ, A thinking meat, Andrzej Jóźwik, Nico Lumma, Christian P. Stobbe, tjalve
Harvard Business Review
Collaborative Intelligence: Humans and AI Are Joining Forces
19+ min · · Humans and machines can enhance each other’s strengths. · Shared by 113, including Gideonro, Julia McCoy, William Toll, Thomas Power, Oleg Baskov, Data Science Renee, Claudia Sommer, Fawzi A. Baba-Ali, Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe #VivaTech, Damien de France 🌍 🕊️🇺🇦, Andreas Staub, Oliver Ewinger, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, Stephan Woodtli, Bertrand Maltaverne, ipfconline in vacation mode :) will be back Sept.4, Daniel Boos
TNW
GitHub gives us a glimpse into the collaborative future of work
7 min · · Today, 10 years after its public launch, GitHub sits at the center of all developer workflows. But reflecting on this first decade in business, it’s not unrealistic to think that it’ll be at the center of all workflows in the years to come. In fact, because of GitHub’s roots in the developer community — and […] · Shared by 86, including Ron McIntyre, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Thomas Power, Simone Corsi 💻🚀, Fabrice Liut 🍌🥑😌
Harvard Business Review
Collaborative Overload
13+ min · · Too much teamwork exhausts employees and saps productivity. Here’s how to avoid it. · Shared by 179, including Elena Neira, Dmitry Solovyev, Bob Sutton, Jonathan Kogan, Arie Goldshlager, sircharlsxavier, Philippe Surber, Sacha Roger, JP Nicols 🇺🇸🇺🇦, Call Me ❝MICKEY❞, Kris Fannin, ✨ Phil Calçado, Stowe Boyd, Dima Cloud, Bertrand Maltaverne, Dom Zuend, Vikram Dutt, Jeremy Caplan, Kenneth Kalmer
The Economist
The collaboration curse
5 min · · The fashion for making employees collaborate has gone too far · Shared by 62, including Nir Eyal, Diogo Mónica, Graham Marshall, Luis Bravo, janfsauer, Azeem Azhar, Jared Husch
home.cern
CERN and ESA forge closer ties with cooperation protocol
1 min · · A new collaboration agreement between CERN and ESA, signed on 11 July, will address the challenge of operating in harsh radiation environments, found in both particle-physics facilities and outer… · Shared by 6, including 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛
Pentagram Design
Slack — Pentagram
1 min · · A new brand identity for the collaboration hub captures its simplicity and ease of use. · Shared by 69, including Chris Messina, Tobias van Schneider, Mark Kaigwa, 梁原 立寛, Kohei Asai, Kunal Bhatia, Marc Wieland
medium.com
Figma VS Sketch – Medium
8 min · · Figma is like Sketch in the browser with real-time collaboration. · Shared by 96, including mastodon.social/@renestalder, SketchTalk, Minnix, David Hellmann, pizza.lottie 🍕, Gui Schmitt, Dez S. Papp, Jacob Jarnvall, Chris Messina, Niklaus Gerber, Meng To, John Tan⚡️, Pete Skomoroch
Mozilla
Mozilla brings Microsoft, Google, the W3C, Samsung together to create cross-browser documentation on MDN
5 min · · Today, Mozilla is announcing a plan that grows collaboration with Microsoft, Google, and other industry leaders on MDN Web Docs. The goal is to consolidate information about web development for ... · Shared by 73, including Léonie @tink@front-end.social, Bruce Lawson, Jakub Ferenc, John Hues, Axel Rauschmayer (INACTIVE), Thomas Power
The Guardian
We broke the Panama Papers story. Our next mission: Donald Trump
6 min · · We were successful because we collaborated with other journalists. Now it is time for the media to join forces once again – especially given the threat Trump poses · Shared by 103, including ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Mark Kaigwa, Nils Hitze, uri, Mathew Ingram, Serge K. Keller ❦, Christian Müller, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Florian Hanke 🍎, Maja Grolimund-Kurth, Thomas Power, Barnaby Skinner, Adrian Castaneda, Jane, Henning von Vogelsang, Lorenz König
The New York Times
Tech’s Damaging Myth of the Loner Genius Nerd
20+ min · · In truth, interpersonal skills like collaboration, communication and empathy are vital to career success in technology. · Shared by 120, including venkat - bala, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Tara Marchand, Bruno T., Mara Averick, blinch, Anita Zielina, Florian Hanke 🍎, Leslie D, Christian Fauteux, Claire Cain Miller, Esther Schindler, Fabricio Teixeira, Neil Lee, Tris Hussey, Channing Walton, Jane, Mathew Ingram
rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org
The impact of the ‘open’ workspace on human collaboration
20+ min · · The Royal Society Publishing platform has detected that this request may be coming from a public data centre that could be used by malicious bots. Please prove that you are a real human user by… · Shared by 113, including Dr. David Ballard, Steven Sinofsky, Brian Roemmele, Ron McIntyre, Dominik Grolimund, Jens-Christian Fischer, Tobias van Schneider, Peter Schmidhuber, Florian Hanke 🍎, 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧, DHH, slumos, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙, Neil Lee, Daniel Bentes, Bradley Cloete, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷