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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
Design
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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 Brigham, a high school student and friend of mine the year the LP was released, had not yet invented morphing…
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What a year that was.
Know your web design history.
My Glamorous Life
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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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My brother, the rhythmic conceptualist
Remembrance of beats passed.
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American healthcare
Cooling my heels at the drugstore.
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Cold Storage
Good UX is what companies do when they have to. A company that has your stuff locked away doesn’t have to.
the Daily Report
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Advice for job seekers
Pitching isn’t bragging.
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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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