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Ryan Nehring

Michigan
As seen in: Medium, The Startup, Wiley Online Library, Substack, Taylor & Francis Online, CGIAR, Dialnet - Universidad de La Rioja, Built In, UX Collective, Farming First
Covers:  Politics, Programming, Design, Development, Music, Social Justice, Culture
Writer, Journalist, Full Stack Developer. Romani. Top Writer on Medium in Politics, Design & Tech. Boxing junkie.
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I Bought a Gun Because I'm Terrified of What Will Happen After Election Day

I Bought a Gun Because I'm Terrified of What Will Happen After Election Day

Medium — "There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment." - Hunter S. Thompson There's nothing fancy about it, but it'll kill if I ask it to, which I suppose is the defining characteristic of a gun. In that sense, it's perfect.
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The Lesser of 2 Evils

The Lesser of 2 Evils

Medium — The dangers of hard-line idealism in a time of fascism This is a difficult piece for me to write. I've got a lifetime of campaign experience, at every level from small city commission races all the way up to being state-level senior staff on Barack Obama's Presidential campaign in 2008.
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Envisioning a Post-Trump America

Envisioning a Post-Trump America

Medium — Where does the anger go? Like so many Americans, I've spent the last four years in an ever-increasing state of disbelief about the occupant of our highest office. A man who once mocked a reporter's disability, bragged about grabbing women "by the pussy", and lies like it's the only way he can draw breath has continued to redefine the social contract we all at least previously pretended to live by.
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Why Every Developer Should Add Marketing to Their Skill Set

Why Every Developer Should Add Marketing to Their Skill Set

Built In — Adding some marketing knowledge will increase your value, and improve your product. At first glance, p rogrammers and m arketers seem like substantively different people. Programmers live in a world of boolean logic where true and false can always be checked and quantified.
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Philanthropy is a Lie

Philanthropy is a Lie

Medium — The ultra-rich keep fooling us with the same trick. Roughly 3 months ago I, along with roughly 40,000 other people all seemingly simultaneously discovered a new Twitter account that asked a very simple question: Has Jeff Bezos Decided to End World Hunger Today? The premise of the account centers around 2 connected concepts: 1.
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Where Design Will Take Us Next

Where Design Will Take Us Next

Medium — P redicting the future is a unique proposition. If your predictions come true, you're a prescient forward-thinker with rare insight. If you get it wrong, so what-no one else can predict the future either. With this win-win framework now established for me, I think the future of design does bear honest consideration.
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Break more design rules

Break more design rules

UX Collective — "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." - Henry Ford In 2019 we all know the formula. Logos live in the hallowed ground of the upper left corner of the page and everything else lines up in rows and columns, neat and tidy, after the requisite "Hero Image", of course.
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