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Christian Werlin

Christian Werlin

Christian is from Hamburg. You can find Christian’s tweets at .

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I have been accused of exploitation in my work, on preying on the desperation of the addicted.  I don’t usually agree. This time I do.
Estimated reading time: 3 min
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What was the best advice you have ever received (and by whom)? Probably my art teacher who realised that I ran out of patience for painting and gave me a camera and 3 rolls of film and said, “I think this works better for you.”
Estimated reading time: 5 min
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    December 11, 2012
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What really offends is that smart young people have been conned into thinking that starting a company is akin to buying a lottery ticket or rolling dice at Las Vegas -- the odds are long but you never know, you might get lucky and strike it rich. So make something up, throw it out there, and see what happens. "Spray and pray," it's called.
Estimated reading time: 6 min
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Gutes Design versucht also, egal, für welche »Schicht« es gedacht ist, diese zu bereichern, nicht zu verdummen. Gutes Design hat einen Bildungsauftrag – und in diesem Kontext ist Text elementar. Das Buch ist das einzige Medium, das dich nach oben ziehen kann, dir die Hand reicht
Estimated reading time: 9 min
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Earlier this year, OLPC workers dropped off closed boxes containing the tablets, taped shut, with no instruction. “I thought the kids would play with the boxes. Within four minutes, one kid not only opened the box, found the on-off switch … powered it up. Within five days, they were using 47 apps per child, per day. Within two weeks, they were singing ABC songs in the village, and within five months, they had hacked Android,” Negroponte said. “Some idiot in our organization or in the Media Lab had disabled the camera, and they figured out the camera, and had hacked Android.”
Estimated reading time: 3 min
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All browsers support two functions: searching and revisiting. My research questions whether constructs like bookmarks really are the right model to support revisiting. I worked closely with Mozilla user experience researchers and designers to rethink how Firefox can better offer “save for later” in the browser.
Estimated reading time: 6 min
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city dwellers in the nineteenth century invented entire lines of delightfully named cocktails — flips! fizzes! daisies! — to deal with morning headaches. Alas, things change: The industrial revolution reshaped the ideas of "work" and "productivity"
Estimated reading time: 6 min
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    Christian Werlin Let’s bring back pre-noon and lunch-cocktails.

    September 27, 2012
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And here’s the upsetting punch line: intelligence seems to make things worse. The scientists gave the students four measures of “cognitive sophistication.” As they report in the paper, all four of the measures showed positive correlations, “indicating that more cognitively sophisticated participants showed larger bias blind spots.”
Estimated reading time: 5 min
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    Christian Werlin Cognitive Biases are quite an interesting field of research.

    June 13, 2012
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    Christian Werlin Related: »Fun and Games with Cognitive Biases« lesswrong.com/lw/4fp/fun_and_games_with_cognitive_biases/

    June 13, 2012
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However, a few times I've been called out. One time I was pretty drunk with a friend at a Target buying Risk (and no, we never finished playing the whole game). This little mexican 5-7 year old with a mohawk, was being an insufferable little shit in the action figure section. I heard him from like 5 aisles over and it was like nails on a chalkboard. I tell my friend, "I'm gonna fart on this kids head. Watch and learn."
Estimated reading time: 1 min
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Hinzu kommt, dass das Mitnehmen eines kleinen Buches, idealerweise auf eine Reise, bedeutet, dass man es auch lesen wird. Die Einflüsterung der Verkäufer des Virtuellen, »wie praktisch es doch sei, 5.000 Bücher in der Tasche zu haben«, führt genau in die falsche Richtung: Nach meiner Erfahrung bringt nur das echte, unsimulierte Buch die kostbare Chance zu tiefem Lesen mit.
Estimated reading time: 9 min
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    Christian Werlin Friedrich Forssman über seine Neugestaltung der Reclam Universalbibliothek, E-Books und Buchgestaltung.

    May 17, 2012
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Anyone who truly understands UI design realizes that every preference option is an admission of defeat: it's there because you couldn't just get it right the first time.
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This had been happening with most of the startups Paul and Harj were interrogating - they just could not seem to provide a customer use-case - and I couldn't stand it any more; which is why at this point I whispered audibly enough for a few nearby people to hear, "Be specific!  Be specific!"
Estimated reading time: 17 min
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Anfangs dachten seine Eltern Florians Ausflug nach 1900 sei nur eine Phase die wieder vorübergeht. "Aber als dann die ersten gößeren Anschaffungen kamen, wie der Schreibtisch, das Bett oder auch Kleidung, da haben sie gemerkt; oh, dem Jungen ist das ernst."
Estimated reading time: 9 min
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Man mag sich fragen, wozu also die Tür, genügt nicht ein einfaches Loch in der Mauer? Abgesehen vom sehr profanen Schutz vor dem Wetter hat die Tür eine wichtige zeremonielle Rolle. Das Öffnen der Tür erinnert uns daran, dass wir einen neuen Raum betreten, in dem eine Reihe von Regeln, Gefahren und Eigentumsverhältnissen herrscht.
Estimated reading time: 4 min
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    Christian Werlin Gegen Schlüssel.

    March 27, 2012
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Do they use language to seduce, charm, excite, please, affirm and tickle those they talk to? Do they? I doubt it. They’re too farting busy sneering at a greengrocer’s less than perfect use of the apostrophe. Well sod them to Hades. They think they’re guardians of language. They’re no more guardians of language than the Kennel Club is the guardian of dogkind.
Estimated reading time: 21 min
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    Christian Werlin Stephen Fry on why enjoying language is worth more than using it ›correctly‹.

    March 18, 2012
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