If you ever have doubts about the future of humanity, visit your local library.
The Finance Industry Is a Grift. Letβs Start Treating It That Way. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/o...
Instead of a period at the end of each sentence, there should be a tiny clock that tells you how long it took you to write that sentence.
βLaurie Anderson, Four Talks
Hey you, good words.
These days surrounding the winter solstice are dark, dark, dark. Nice time to think about what we might make together when the light returns.
- What Kind of New World Is Being Born? A Christmas Essay by Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, Dec. 25, 2025
We are creatures of symbols, and our architecture tells us who we are.
Adam Gopnik, βTeardown,β The New Yorker, Nov. 3, 2025
Friendly reminder to support your local independent bookstore this weekend!
A slightly less friendly reminder to just not buy books from Am*zon at all.
Devastating. Thank you for feeling, learning, and sharing it all in your work. And life.
It sounds like a whisper
Don't you know
Talking about a revolution?
It sounds like a whisper
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Look at the hands you hold.
I planted a tree this weekend. Yesterday it rained. Progress is like that.
Next slide please.
I donβt understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
- Tennessee Williams
Wake me from this nightmare!
To do list:
* Go to the Information Architecture Conference in April.
* Attend this @daviddylanthomas.bsky.social workshop (because we need more of this now).
www.theiaconference.com/sessions/inc...
This week! Let's talk about content design and design systems and how we can make them both better! Join me at Button Workshop Days.
Your friendly neighborhood librarian here...buy physical copies of your favorite books, especially challenged or banned books. Preferably from small local merchants. That's all; carry on. #Read #BookSky #Resist π
Alice, the world is full of ugly things
That you can't change
Pretend it's not that way
It's my idea of faith
You can blow it off
And say there's good in nearly everyone
Just give them all a chance
Now let's give them all a chance
βBen Folds
Thanks, @halvorson.bsky.social and the rest of the good folks at Button for helping me spread the word about #content, #DesignSystems, and ways to bring efficiency to both of them.
www.buttonconf.com/blog/how-to-...
The brilliant filmmaker and content strategist @daviddylanthomas.bsky.social is out for blood. Metaphorically, of course. Help him out.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...
I came to explore the wreck.
The words are purposes.
The words are maps.
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In one month! Button Workshop Days! Let's share discoveries, strategies, and tactics for content in design systems. Collaborate with a bunch of your smart peers and me as we make content, design, and systems better. #ContentDesign #ContentStrategy #DesignSystems
www.buttonconf.com/events/consi...
Looking forward to sharing #DesignSystems and #Content strategies and tactics "with" the brilliant Michael Lawrence during Button Workshop Days! www.buttonconf.com/events/consi...
Today we march.
Right now, in this coffee shop, in this east coast town, an old man is singing along to Lucinda Williams. This gives me great joy.
I just quoted The Who in a Slack channel. This has been a successful day.