Literacies are a fascinating skill we've cultivated. Beyond learning the functional part of reading, we use the written word as a primary means to learn and transmit ideas. Truly powerful, if you really consider it. Charts can work this way too, kinda. 📊
No, I am not going to review the phone app.
I was WindsCogley elsewhere. 📊 explored semantics in data visualization & ethics on my blog. 📊 made some pretty dashboards in Tableau, earning various recognitions. 📊 cowrote Functional Aesthetics for Data Visualization with Vidya Setlur. 📊 cofounded Versalytix. 📈 Write about life, cats & grief.
The English language falters so much when it comes to grief. Maybe every language does. A small few who have endured a specific loss know how to say, "I see you." But perhaps more importantly, it's what they do that speaks the most. (1/?)
It's far too easy to be around people and never interact. The cost of this is loneliness, disconnection. We cannot only subsist on a small share of people. We lose our ability to interact when everything is a task, joy ultimately going right along with it.
At some point, we'll have to discuss the societal impacts of automating every task. We've reduced so much waste that the glue has nothing to hold and has dried out. That glue is community - the daily existence in and among people.
