Joyfully Subvert the Status Quo
summary
Specific, repeatable moves and results not promises: archival declassification reveals 500,000–2,000,000 deaths in 1965 Indonesia changing the narrative; community response turns a racist “barbecue Becky” incident into an annual lake picnic drawing thousands; students raise ~$100,000 and secure matching funds to transform a “prison yard” into a playable campus; engineering pranks and features like pink hearts in Mac OS and scribble together drawing app ship and persist; prototyping at Dynamicland and a token table reengage users and revive collaboration.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:27LET'S LEARN ABOUT YOU
- 2:18JOYFULLY SUBVERTING THE STATUS QUO
- 8:09EXAMPLES PLEAZ
- 14:59SCRIBBLE TOGETHER
- 15:51EXPERIMENTING WITH FORMAT
- 16:28SUBVERTING TECH
- 20:51CREATING A SPACE
- 26:06BUILDING ON HISTORY
- 28:43SHIFTING THE NATURE OF WORK
- 29:01Khan Academy
- 33:10JOYFULLY SUBVERT THE STATUS QUO
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