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Ali Almossawi

Author and Independent Designer. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

authorengineer@alialmossawi ↗almossawi.com ↗Wikipedia ↗

He is the creator and author of the bestselling books An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments and Bad Choices. Outside publishing, he worked as a data visualization engineer at Mozilla and spent seven years at Apple leading engineering and design teams building AI/ML developer tools.

What they said4 Shows1

Everything Ali Almossawi said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

KNOWLEDGE PROJECT Insight

A privacy-first tech company discovered users rarely care about digital privacy

“I remember I used to work for a company where where there Their kind of, their slogan was that we care about the user's privacy. And that's, and they valued privacy over everything else, including, you know, features and the ability to acquire data and so on. …”

Ali Almossawi Aug 8, 2018 ▶ 14:16 #38 Ali Almossawi: Thinking in Algorithms

KNOWLEDGE PROJECT Opinion

Twitter's continuous stream makes it the worst platform for accidental oversharing

“And Twitter is the worst because you have this constant stream of updates. That people are sharing, and sometimes you don't recognize how much you're revealing in those places.”

Ali Almossawi Aug 8, 2018 ▶ 15:00 #38 Ali Almossawi: Thinking in Algorithms

KNOWLEDGE PROJECT Insight

Audiences perceive physical books as definitive culminations, unlike digital artifacts

“Crucially, there is it's, the artifact is always a work in progress. Whereas I came to learn that with a book there is this perception that a book is the culmination of you know, of an effort, and maybe rightfully so for historical reasons.”

Ali Almossawi Aug 8, 2018 ▶ 3:13 #38 Ali Almossawi: Thinking in Algorithms

KNOWLEDGE PROJECT Disclosure

Almossawi spent $15,000 on a failed iteration of his algorithmic book

“I think I spent like 15,000 dollars on it.”

Ali Almossawi Aug 8, 2018 ▶ 4:47 #38 Ali Almossawi: Thinking in Algorithms

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Ali's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
KNOWLEDGE PROJECTLEDGER	Author and Independent Designer	1	4	—	full record on the Knowledge Project →