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Jan 8, 2025: From Jesse Alford at Nonlinear Garden: Slice smaller, finish, reorient. Feed your intention with victory. Let the parts of you that are afraid you …
Jan 5, 2025: More from Disability Dongle: But their shift from ‘designing for’ to ‘designing with’ constrains the disabled user as a rhetorical device to validate …
Jan 5, 2025: Disability Dongles From Disability Dongle: In plain terms, the design process of creating a Disability Dongle isn’t actually about producing an assistive device, shitty …
Jan 5, 2025: Fascinating article on the sparkles icon, which has proliferated as an indicator for AI.
Jan 5, 2025: DNF’d Playing to Win by Alan G. Lafley at 16% because the first chapter was so repetitive that I lost all faith in the author.
Jan 4, 2025: From Alice Sparkly Kat: We don’t use astrology to manufacture doom. We use astrology, which is a divination tool, to help us narrate the …
Jan 4, 2025: Revisiting Promotional Principles for Creative People, a collaborative project from Metalabel. Lots of interesting additions in the comments, …
Jan 4, 2025: Energy audits Mandy Brown’s post Energy Makes Time was what I needed to read today, and I’ve decided to do another energy audit. Here’s the google …
Dec 31, 2024: A website makes it real From the Squarespace landing page: “A website makes it real.” This is the thing, though. How did it happen that now you need an impeccably …
Dec 31, 2024: I decided to code my own website and here's what happened (Part 1 of many) Do you remember how the internet used to be? A time when unvisited hyperlinks were always blue with an underline, and visited hyperlinks were purple …
Dec 19, 2024: Maybe I’ll start to adhere to a one-in, one-out policy when it comes to my inbox. For each newsletter I subscribe to, I need to unsubscribe to a …
Dec 15, 2024: Public domain image of the day. Armour & Co. Portrait of Electric Light Installers, c. 1904. National Gallery of Art.
Dec 1, 2024: “Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.” - Linus Torvalds
Nov 24, 2024: A metaphor is a system for sensemaking.
Nov 24, 2024: "Illegibility comes from complexity without clarity." This past summer, I gave a lecture at a web conference and afterward got into a fascinating conversation with a young digital design student. It was …
Nov 24, 2024: Spent some time in the Gapingvoid Culture Design Group archives. I liked these in particular. Simplicity is Complexity Resolved - Gapingvoid The …
Nov 24, 2024: curation Loved this curation by Tim Krieder of the current exhibition of artwork by Met Museum staff.
Nov 21, 2024: The internet used to be* fun
Nov 21, 2024: I think I browse note-taking software options to relax the way some people browse Zillow.
Nov 21, 2024: Must read: Tara McMullin on Seeing Software. I especially liked the part about approaching choosing software as though you were interviewing someone …
Nov 15, 2024: the trust thermocline Came across this on Bluesky. The trust thermocline is pretty interesting. It’s the idea that for some products, irreversible consumer trust …
Nov 15, 2024: Who sold us the idea that we need a tagline? Appreciated Fred Tally-Foos' piece niching down is bad and inhuman about the idea that “we need to be able to give our elevator pitch, explain …
Nov 14, 2024: Tools updates 11.2024 Browser: Arc Browser for Windows was life-changing a few months ago, but it’s a bit slow on my computer so I’m trying out Zen Browser this …
Nov 14, 2024: On hope Two recent perspectives, both nourishing: from Mariame Kaba and Perdita Finn. I also appreciated Toi Smith’s most recent newsletter which …
Nov 13, 2024: This was a delightful little read. No spoilers, but I too remember when I learned the phrase in question and what a revelation it was. …
Nov 12, 2024: via Jorge Arango's newsletter The hallmark of expertise is no longer how much you know. It’s how well you synthesize. Information scarcity rewarded knowledge acquisition. …
Nov 11, 2024: learning about message design... Because cognitive dissonance is the mental spark that turns contemplation into action, creating it is a requirement for instigating long-term change. …
Nov 11, 2024: ruthless Be ruthless in learning what’s actually going to work for you. Discern between the things that feel they’re not going to work because …
Nov 11, 2024: From longform.asmartbear.com/worse-but-unique Playing on your own terms changes the game. “Worse, but unique,” is in fact “better.”
Nov 9, 2024: From Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt At the core, strategy is about focus, and most complex organizations don’t focus their resources. Instead, they pursue multiple goals at once, not …
Nov 4, 2024: Say what you will about my obsession with process... …but I wouldn’t have made any of these posts if it weren’t for the Obsidian Micro.blog plug-in that lets me post these directly …
Nov 4, 2024: administrative debt In software engineering, technical debt is when you work quickly and take shortcuts in coding that prioritize completing the work sooner over …
Nov 4, 2024: Inbox Full of Striving It’s occurred to me how many of the email lists I’m on are related to dreams I have for my life. Not just current dreams, dreams I’m …
Nov 4, 2024: a question you didn't know you had What did children’s alphabet books do for the letter X before the widespread popular knowledge of x rays and xylophones?
Oct 30, 2024: 3 Thoughts About Process Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic. – Charles Eames A good process can lead to good outcomes, but it doesn’t …
Oct 24, 2024: From Start Finishing by Charlie Gilkey: I’ve found that projects are both mirrors of what’s going on in our current world and bridges to a …
Oct 24, 2024: From Herminia Ibarra’s Working Identity: Better to live the contradictions than to come to a premature resolution.
Oct 24, 2024: Take Emotion Seriously From Andy Matuschak and Michael Nielsen’s How can we develop transformative tools for thought? (There’s lots of amazing stuff in this …
Oct 24, 2024: Just bought my tix for Makesensemess, aka the nerdiest party of the year! Loved Abby Covert’s books and excited to see the lineup for this …
Oct 23, 2024: Simple, Lovable, Complete The idea of “minimum viable product” never made sense to me, so I appreciated this reframe of “simple, lovable, complete.” …
Oct 22, 2024: I also devote a lot of time to learning technique. When I’m writing a novel, even one like this, if I’m reading another novel, I might plug in a …
Oct 22, 2024: We need to talk about vocational awe. www.whatworks.fyi/p/good-wo…
Oct 22, 2024: Not editing is winging it at the audition. The boring stuff will probably never stop being boring. You’ll just care less about it being boring. You …
Oct 22, 2024: When you have clarity on visions and intention — the form will emerge, by itself. – Kening Zhu from the house on the webs introduction
Oct 22, 2024: a data system is a hypothesis about the world A file system is an expression of how you see the world. Which things are like other things? Which things are different? Which categories are …
Sep 1, 2024: From “Start More Than You Can Finish: A Creative Permission Slip to Unleash Your Best Ideas” by Becky Blades - “The value in acting …
Aug 30, 2024: Found in Show Your Work, by Austin Kleon: The stupidest possible creative act is still a creative act. On the spectrum of creative work, the …