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October 3, 2014Design, Life, Speaking, Tech

Places Make Us

My Keynote from Midwest UX is available. it is about how, as we make places, places make us back. We must be careful and caring as we design the new worlds people live in online.

 

Christina Wodtke — Places Make Us from Mutually Human on Vimeo.

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Places Make Us from Christina Wodtke

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Radical Focus SECOND EDITION

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“Christina has taken my favorite book on OKRs and deepened it by answering all the hardest questions people run into putting it to work in the real world. Thank you once again!”   – Bruce McCarthy, author and founder of Product Culture

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