Gordon Ross 🇨🇦
@gordonr.ca
VP & Partner, OXD: Vancouver-based digital services firm. I work with government to afford better citizen outcomes. 🇨🇦 Spem Successus Alit | success nourishes hope.
...The last item is obviously important. Considering that most projects do not work out as planned, it would be helpful if they proceeded in a way that allowed revision and learning, that is, in small reversible steps."
From the 1989 Massey Lectures, The Real World of Technology (and my 1990 book).
From the 1989 Massey Lectures, The Real World of Technology (and my 1990 book).
November 28, 2025 at 12:59 AM
...The last item is obviously important. Considering that most projects do not work out as planned, it would be helpful if they proceeded in a way that allowed revision and learning, that is, in small reversible steps."
From the 1989 Massey Lectures, The Real World of Technology (and my 1990 book).
From the 1989 Massey Lectures, The Real World of Technology (and my 1990 book).
(4) favours people over machines;
(5) whether its strategy maximizes gain or minimizes disaster;
(6) whether conservation is favoured over waste; and
(7), whether the reversible is favoured over the irreversible?
cont...
(5) whether its strategy maximizes gain or minimizes disaster;
(6) whether conservation is favoured over waste; and
(7), whether the reversible is favoured over the irreversible?
cont...
November 28, 2025 at 12:59 AM
(4) favours people over machines;
(5) whether its strategy maximizes gain or minimizes disaster;
(6) whether conservation is favoured over waste; and
(7), whether the reversible is favoured over the irreversible?
cont...
(5) whether its strategy maximizes gain or minimizes disaster;
(6) whether conservation is favoured over waste; and
(7), whether the reversible is favoured over the irreversible?
cont...
Have you considered recumbents? Or perhaps telemark skiing?
November 26, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Have you considered recumbents? Or perhaps telemark skiing?
That which is given, rather than taken (what we call data is mostly capta) as per Johanna Drucker, Rob Kitchin and others: dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/5/1/0000...
DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly: Humanities Approaches to Graphical Display
dhq.digitalhumanities.org
November 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
That which is given, rather than taken (what we call data is mostly capta) as per Johanna Drucker, Rob Kitchin and others: dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/5/1/0000...
Social penalties for using AI - not just for the workplace… www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Evidence of a social evaluation penalty for using AI | PNAS
Despite the rapid proliferation of AI tools, we know little about how people who use
them are perceived by others. Drawing on theories of attributi...
www.pnas.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Social penalties for using AI - not just for the workplace… www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
East Van Halloween - a few people recognized it. “hey, that’s from that Expo movie!”
November 9, 2025 at 2:40 AM
East Van Halloween - a few people recognized it. “hey, that’s from that Expo movie!”