good: Sitegeist: A Data-Rich Mobile App To Help You Learn About Any Neighborhood- Adele Peters wrote in Technology, Community and Cities What do you know about your neighborhood? Sitegeist, a new mobile app designed by the Sunlight Foundation and IDEO, might help you learn a little more. The app draws from publicly available data on everything from demographics, to the average cost of rent, to recommended restaurants. All of the information is displayed in easy-to-read graphics.  Continue reading on good.is Cool.
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Sitegeist: A Data-Rich Mobile App To Help You Learn About Any Neighborhood
- Adele Peters wrote in Technology, Community and Cities

What do you know about your neighborhood? Sitegeist, a new mobile app designed by the Sunlight Foundation and IDEO, might help you learn a little more. The app draws from publicly available data on everything from demographics, to the average cost of rent, to recommended restaurants. All of the information is displayed in easy-to-read graphics. 

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“Guessers are wrong, and Askers are right. Asking is how you actually determine what the Asker wants and the giver is willing to receive. Guessing culture is a recipe for frustration. What’s more, Guessers, who are usually trying to be nice and are holding themselves to a higher level of politeness, ruin things for the rest of us. I’m not a super hospitable guy, but I frequently find myself offering things to other people that I’d like them to take — say, leave their kids at my house to play with my kids — but they refuse to take because they think I’m a Guesser, offering hospitality I secretly hope will be turned down. Guessers are what forces people with poor social discernment, like me, to regard all kinds of interactions as a minefield of awkwardness.”

— Ask, Don’t Guess | The New Republic

Interesting. Was definitely raised a guesser, but it’s good to remember that not everyone is that way, and that an ask is not always an expectation, but something you can genuinely say no to. And while a guesser’s ability to sniff out whether a yes is likely before even making an ask may save people the awkwardness of an inappropriate request, it can also create a breed of awkwardness all its own as a byproduct.