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Handwritten notes in the time of AI note takers The best project management tool is still a pen, plus the discipline to notice what the machine cannot. Wisdom from Lucas Radke.
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Dine ’n em-dash The best defense is to write humanly.
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RSS creator on Bluesky & AT Proto Bluesky can’t abandon the developers who made a bet on AT Proto, so they should give the protocol to a standards body while catching up on UX.—Dave Winer
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Too Many Notes Lately, in work conversations, I find myself fighting a lifelong tendency to provide way more context than is absolutely required. If you ask me to okay your work, for example, I may respond with an…
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A die-cut above Cover art for the 1971 prog-rock LP “Fearless,” by British band Family features a distinctive, die-cut cover design depicting the five band members gradually morphing into a single entity combining features of them all. Tom…
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My brother, the rhythmic conceptualist Remembrance of beats passed.
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What a year that was. Know your web design history.
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Advice for job seekers Pitching isn’t bragging.
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American healthcare Cooling my heels at the drugstore.
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The salad bar theory of UX professionalism Less, but better? Not this week.
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Works in Progress New tunes from an old maker.
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Claude Code for Designers FIRST, the disclaimers: Some of my favorite writers—folks who are as anti-fascist and pro-democracy as they come—publish on Substack, but I read and recommend their work less and less frequently, because Substack has a Nazi…
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“A streamlined newspaper for a streamlined era” Posted today for no particular reason.
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Mark your calendar: Local News Day is 9 April It’s no secret that newspapers across the country exist in a fragile ecosystem. Automattic has long supported journalism and local media with investments in publications and platforms like Longreads, The Atavist, and Newspack. We believe that local news…
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We named them after the humans they were replacing. “The word ‘computer’ only really slid over to mean ‘a machine’ in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, once we started building mechanical and then electronic devices to do that work instead [of people].…
