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Ghita Benotmane

@ghitabo.design
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I do service design, mostly. Philosophy nerd. If you're wondering, it's pronounced 'Rita'. 📍Paris, France.

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Ghita Benotmane @ghitabo.design · 28/01/2026
Thanks for your perspective, Jared. The way you describe Experience Strategy in your video does feel very close to how I practice Service Design in my org, and I know I'm no exception. I wonder if it's a matter of seniority/level of influence.
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Ghita Benotmane @ghitabo.design · 28/01/2026
Isn't that just... Service Design?
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Wikipedia @wikipedia.org · 30/12/2025
🗣️ LET’S MAKE CURIOSITY COOL IN 2026
In/Out List for 2026 

In
Learning for fun, not just for school or work
"Wait, let me look that up"
Scrolling straight to the Personal life section
Curiosity 
Learning how to edit Wikipedia
Knowing random facts and where they came from
Telling the group chat about your research
Longer attention spans

Out 
Doomscrolling 
Making fun of people who like to learn
Misinformation 
Not citing your sources
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability & quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
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Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.
Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.
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Ghita Benotmane @ghitabo.design · 14/06/2025
“I lied. I manipulated. I wrapped control in poetry.” Chilling.
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Ghita Benotmane @ghitabo.design · 08/05/2025
One of the best reads on AI & Education: "You can no longer make students do the reading or the writing. So what’s left? Only this: give them work they want to do. And help them want to do it. What, again, is education? The non-coercive rearranging of desire. " www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence?
Maybe not as we’ve known them. But, in the ruins of the old curriculum, something vital is stirring.
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Ghita Benotmane @ghitabo.design · 15/04/2025
Vous êtes trop mims, Arte
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Théotime 🇺🇦🇫🇷🇪🇺 @thylong.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I can't believe I'll say this in 2025 but: We, EU tech engineers, should start to seriously consider EU made alternatives to every American SaaS & business we currently use. Tariffs will impact goods but soon services too. We cannot rely on the US anymore as a reliable economical partner anymore.
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Pixels | Le Monde @pixelsfr.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Dans le Vermont, le réseau social ultralocal aussi populaire que Facebook
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Dans le Vermont, le réseau social ultralocal aussi populaire que Facebook
Dans cet Etat rural et très progressiste du nord-est des Etats-Unis, un réseau social local baptisé Front Porch Forum parvient à rivaliser avec Facebook et Instagram. Une solution de substitution « low-tech », dépourvue d’algorithme et centrée sur le…
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Ghita Benotmane @ghitabo.design · 16/02/2025
Case in point bsky.app/profile/bonp...
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Ghita Benotmane @ghitabo.design · 15/02/2025
The attacks on the pillars of the nation-state, the dismantling of government agencies, and the aggressive anti-intellectualism are some chilling signals of what's yet to come. We're still missing a mob of MAGA red guards to emerge but it doesn't seem so far fetched.
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Ghita Benotmane @ghitabo.design · 15/02/2025
Heartbreaking to watch the USA ship sink slowly to the abyss. As much as we compare this moment to German and Italian fascism (and rightly so), there's also a striking resemblance with China's cultural (counter)revolution.
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Ghita Benotmane @ghitabo.design · 29/01/2025
Beautiful commitment of Fed workers in the USA holding their line. "Le sens du service public" is strong!
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Ghita Benotmane @ghitabo.design · 28/01/2025
This thread is so good ✨
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Welcome immigrants from X interested in science to the friendlier skies of @bsky.app, as documented by a new @nature.com survey (but you already knew that 😉) "Bluesky is much better for science. There is much less toxicity, misinformation, and distractions." www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Niall @niallokelly.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Very helpful overview of (some of) the great design talent + leaders active on Bluesky. Let’s build the supportive, inspiring, thought-provoking community we all need right now! Thanks for putting this together @jonas.do 🙌
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Ghita Benotmane @ghitabo.design · 19/01/2025
I wish TikTok was removed in Europe too. Lucky Americans!
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Ghita Benotmane @ghitabo.design · 19/01/2025
6, and I still send postcards
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Ville de Paris @paris.fr · 16/01/2025
Hello (again) Bluesky !
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Ghita Benotmane @ghitabo.design · 13/01/2025
Some fun ones you got there 😁
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Ghita Benotmane @ghitabo.design · 12/01/2025
Billionaires shouldn't exist. This statement only feels radical because we tend to severely underestimate the true scale of superwealth. 👉This visualization does a perfect job putting things in perspective. mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-weal...
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Wealth, shown to scale
Wealth inequality in the United States is out of control. Here we visualize the issue in a unique way.
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Ghita Benotmane @ghitabo.design · 11/01/2025
I just discovered Halla Tómasdóttir, the president of Iceland, through the Adam Grant podcast. So hopeful, and one of the best takes I've heard on imposter syndrome. Give it a listen, it'll lighten your day ☀️ open.spotify.com/episode/00eM...
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Befriending your impostor syndrome with Iceland's president Halla Tómasdóttir
Worklife with Adam Grant · Episode
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Ghita Benotmane @ghitabo.design · 11/01/2025
Without downloading any pictures, what's your energy going into 2025?
Anxious woman: "What to do? What to do?" 
Obélix, relaxed: "What about eating?"

Cartoon from Astérix and Obélix - The fortune teller (Le devin)
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laydgeur @laydgeur.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Si vous êtes ici je pense que vous êtes prêt à signer cette pétition, pour que le gouvernement cesse d’utiliser X comme plateforme de communication : petitions.assemblee-nationale.fr/initiatives/...
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Cesser d'utiliser X (anciennement Twitter) pour les communications officielles du gouvernement - Cesser d'utiliser X (anciennement Twitter) pour les communications officielles du gouvernement - Platef...
Cessez d'utiliser cette plateforme comme l'un des principaux porte-parole des communications officielles en France. Il existe des alternatives bien mieux modérées et régulées, et il est même possible ...
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Vasco @vasco-le-media.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Coucou tout le monde ! Comme pas mal de gens, on s'éloigne de Twitter/X pour chercher un ciel un peu moins nuageux... Pour commencer, vous pouvez jeter un oeil à cette liste (où on a l'honneur de figurer) qui regroupe l'essentiel de la science sur Bluesky. Merci et bisous ! 😘 go.bsky.app/CFvzzJP
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Ghita Benotmane @ghitabo.design · 05/01/2025
The Nokia Design Archive is an online museum curating the history and designs Nokia, and it's just lovely and nostalgic in every possible way
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A treasure trove of tech history goes online with the unveiling of the Nokia Design Archive
Aalto University launches the Nokia Design Archive, an online repository that charts the pioneering history of Finland’s legendary mobile phone manufacturer
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Ghita Benotmane @ghitabo.design · 04/01/2025
Progress occurs every day, right under our noses, and there was plenty across the globe, *even in 2024*. Including progress on disease treatments, rise of minimum wages, same-sex marriage, women and children's rights and... the location of Plato's tumb (!)
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Ten Inspiring Signs of Progress From 2024
These positive stories—from scientific breakthroughs to advancements in justice and equality—make us feel uplifted and hopeful for the future.
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Doing sufficient qualitative research for the purposes of making business decisions is neither particularly expensive nor difficult if you actually care about people and want to learn about them. Unfortunately, you will end up learning a lot of inconvenient stuff.
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Ghita Benotmane @ghitabo.design · 29/12/2024
Absolutely spot on @tomgauld.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/pictur...
Cartoon by Tom Gauld for the Guardian - "By conceling herself with a cocoon of discarded wrapping paper and surviving on a diet of surplus festive chocolates and liqueurs, Emily hopes to read undisturbed as far into January as possible". Replaced Emiliy by "Ghita".
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Ghita Benotmane @ghitabo.design · 29/12/2024
Google WAS good. But I've been using a combination of Firefox and DuckDuckGo for quite some time now. More than enough to land on Wikipedia anyway.
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Ghita Benotmane @ghitabo.design · 24/12/2024
Mood #gouvernement #zombies The new is sure taking its time to be born.
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Fernanda Ferreira @fernandaedi.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
This is what the internet is for.
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Ghita Benotmane @ghitabo.design · 09/12/2024
"The end of forever." Beautiful.
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Ghita Benotmane @ghitabo.design · 08/12/2024
Glad it resonates!
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Ghita Benotmane @ghitabo.design · 08/12/2024
Very complementary to @shannonvallor.bsky.social 's take on "AI as a mirror" rhetoric, gaslighting the potential of human agency. It amounts to engaging in a deep and practical optimism about what humanity is and could be. Time to go dust off ancient greek philosophers!
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Ghita Benotmane @ghitabo.design · 08/12/2024
Lovely read, taking a step aside the *tiring* debate of AI awareness, and inviting us to expand the way we view our own minds, beyond the experience-memory-knowledge loop. Very Bergsonian.
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Mechanized minds: AI's hidden impact on human thought
While we’re busy wondering whether machines will ever become conscious, we rarely stop to ask: What happens to us?
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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Actual people with some insight on Syria: go.bsky.app/3ng3Ghq
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Ghita Benotmane @ghitabo.design · 08/12/2024
Bachar the tyrant could've left 13 years ago, or chosen another path for Syria. Better late than never, but what a waste. Let's see how the transition unfolds. Happy for the refugees already making plans to go back home. #Syria
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Ghita Benotmane @ghitabo.design · 07/12/2024
Fairphone 5 is great!
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Ghita Benotmane @ghitabo.design · 06/12/2024
Souvenir ému d'il y a... 16 ans 🙈, lorsque que "Quelque chose noir" était au programme de Khâgne. Ça ne lui plaisait pas beaucoup que sa poésie soit disséquée par des gamins et leurs profs pour un concours. Mais il était venu quand même, avec son humour, sa finesse, et son génie discret 🥹
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Jacques Roubaud, poète et mathématicien des mots, est mort
Mathématicien de formation, membre de l’Oulipo, groupe qui travaille depuis les années 1960 sur la littérature sous contrainte, cet architecte savant du langage est mort à 92 ans.
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Eric Lagadec @ericlagadec.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Parfois, des questions très simples peuvent conduire à des réflexions intenses. Trouver une réponse peut prendre des siècles. C'est le cas de la question "Pourquoi la nuit est-elle noire?". Pendant des siècles, cette question a chauffé les cerveaux les plus brillants: thread👇
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South Carolina 50501 @ctraveler.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
295,000 journalists from 44 countries will stop posting content on X. We are making change and the world has spoken. www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/e...
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European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X
The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries.
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Ghita Benotmane @ghitabo.design · 02/12/2024
Totally, each time I open this app. But I feel like our history is being written too, so I keep being drawn to it.
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Ghita Benotmane @ghitabo.design · 01/12/2024
Oh non 😢
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Ghita Benotmane @ghitabo.design · 30/11/2024
"Planting seeds in a field that is burning on the other side": was there ever a better definition of service design?
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Ghita Benotmane @ghitabo.design · 28/11/2024
Welcome 👋
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Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Traffic from Bluesky's @bsky.app to @theguardian.com is already 2x that of Threads In its first week on the platform & with 300k followers, Bluesky traffic from @theguardian.com posts is already higher than it was from TwX in any week in 2024, where the account had 10.8m followers, but🧵
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Sarah Drummond @rufflemuffin.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Even though you have the job title service design, doesn't mean the organisation at large has bought into it. New weeknote on teaching service design, looking at cob barns and making music on a new bit of hardware sarah-drummond.com/2024/11/irre...
Service Design is... 
A conversation
An email 
A new fund 
A coffee with someone
A diagram
A new structure
Changing the name of something 
Renaming a business process
Changing an API
Stopping things from happening
Starting new things
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Why have the Guardian & Observer's journalists voted overwhelming to go on strike? I've attempted to summarise our concerns, the reports so far & why a Scott Trust board meeting tomorrow is a pivotal moment for press freedom & the future of journalism. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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How to Speak Truth to Power
...when that power is your own news organisation? I don't know. And I wish it was a question I didn't have to ask.
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Ghita Benotmane @ghitabo.design · 25/11/2024
Oh tu vas adorer!
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