Hack Me Now, for Humanity’s Sake
Design inner peace to better the world Hello fellow humans. We’ve got all the ingredients here to do a lot better. This post proposes how we can start being more effective by designing apps to...
Words & Work of Ariel McNichol: Portfolio, prototypes, ponderings from an interactive creative director, entrepreneur, future-enthusiast
Apps for Empathy (in progress)
This is a messy subject, with overlapping lines and unclearly defined terms…but it’s important, powerful and immensely interesting. Let’s not just hook ourselves on dopamine torture cycles inside games for profit. Let’s spiral the dopamine cycle ‘up’...
Itty bitty triumphs: building tomorrow today ;)
I just discovered Dr BJ Fogg – what an awesome human/scientist/researcher/writer. A rather pathetic summary of something very helpful and simple that i don’t want to forget, is how ‘tiny habits’ are essential to...
Visions for Like Hacking/Self Helpware
Oh futurist/self-help-loving/seekers – what a precipice we now stand upon! The data is in, the people are ready…quantified self groups have sprung up around the planet with eager data sharers, hoping for a little...
What? Youtube locked aspect ratio!
Google/YouTube doesn’t support portrait oriented videos. That means people like me, who just tried to upload a smartphone captured portrait video end up furious because my portrait video gets bulky side padding to convert...
Inspiring Articles
Here’s a springboard of good reads from my saved NYTimes articles. Sleep Therapy Seen as an Aid for Depression The first of four studies on the special relationship between sleep and depression suggests that...
Can Social Networks Cure Disease?
Stumbled across this article. It suggests that The Mood Project, with specific illness focused social networking would provide even further benefit than mere message boards or generic SNs. by Mark Hyman, MD Last month I...
