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Chrissie Brodigan

Chrissie Brodigan

This is a little bit about me:

Brooklynite, and pug lover/rescuer. I’ve been designing web applications and community strategy for nearly 10 years. Some of my clients have included: huffingtonpost.com, K-12 education systems, higher education systems, and more recently I’ve worked with some terrific teams in non-profit sector designing apps for social and political change and outreach.

Though a rare tweeter (the days are busy and I’m not that comfortable sharing my personal life online, with 140 characters it’s easy to be misunderstood), you can find me on Twitter @tenaciouscb and please write to me at christine DOT brodigan AT gmail DOT com.

I’m also over here:

Some favorite quotes:

“All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory.

I was naive. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.

It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization that everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself.”

– Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man


“The difference between stupid and intelligent people–and this is true whether or not they are well-educated–is that intelligent people can handle subtlety.

They are not baffled by ambiguous or even contradictory situations–in fact, they expect them and are apt to become suspicious when things seem overly straightforward.”

– Ms. Matheson to Nell, The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson


“In your primer you have a resource that will make you highly educated, but it will never make you intelligent. That comes from life.

Your life up to this point has given you all of the experience you need to be intelligent, but you have to think about those experiences. If you don’t think about them, you’ll be psychologically unwell.

If you do think about them, you will become not merely educated but intelligent, and then, a few years down the road, you will probably give me cause to wish I were several decades younger.”

– Constable to Nell, The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson


“We must dispense with what makes you like all the other girls and concentrate on what makes you different.”

– Ms. Matheson to Nell, The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson

“You can try to act the same–we have tried to make you the same–you can pretend it in the future if you insist, and you can even take the Oath–but it’s all a lie. You are different.”

– Ms. Matheson to Nell, The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson

I am suggesting that you are one of those rare people who transcends tribes . . . .

– Ms. Matheson to Nell, The Diamond Age by Neal Sephenson

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