This made me so angry. It’s virtue signaling while riding on a horse so high it’s anatomically suspect, mixed with the disease known as I Want To Be Seen A Design Thought Leader On Twitter. Here’s why:https://twitter.com/shashashasha/status/953743435365789697 …
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1/6. Delight and beauty matter. Treating projects (and life) in terms of raw functionality is denying yourself and others what makes us human.
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2/6. What if this project was about getting an intern up to speed, or team bonding? Not everything has the obvious goals. Allow “impact” to have different shapes than you can imagine.
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3/6. Do you spend your every waking minute “helping folks in need”? You’re not doing it right now, since you’re reading my answer. So congrats, by your own definition you just became a bad person.
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Life is balance. It’s okay to have fun once in a while, particularly because this will recharge your batteries and make it easier to give back.
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There's a recurring argument in almost any context: "How can you do BLANK when there are people who are starving/sick/at war?"
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To which I usually reply, if we never did BLANK until that problem was solved, we'd still be living in caves wishing we had fire.
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It's not a complete answer, because there's an argument to be made in favor of caves (or that, at least, "progress" hasn't been great). But for better or worse, that drive to do BLANK is a defining quality of humanity.
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Yes, although I think there should exist a tension between doing BLANK and Things That Matter In More Obvious Ways, even if to reflect on how to live a meaningful life.
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