Information vacuums and some thoughts about news

January 27, 2024

I've been thinking a bit about news, and information, and how information flows around and between people. I've been thinking about community informatics and...

a quick note on notes

February 1, 2023

Hello, it’s me again. I wrote that thing about social media and having some reflections on alternative ways of being and then I just… tuned out. From...

Living in the dying mall

November 11, 2022

Living in the dying mall Like many other nerdy young millennials, I was an early adopter of all things web 2.0 (the social web, remember it? RDF and rel-...

The Adjacent Possible

May 4, 2022

One of the concepts that keeps surfacing in my work, on the work computer and in the more offline corners of my life, is something called the “adjacent...

Relationships are the Wire

March 25, 2022

In the last several years I’ve come to find relationships are central to everything. This sounds so obvious as to be a cliche, but I think there’s a level of...

Insight libraries: build vs buy?

January 14, 2022

🌱 This one started as an idle scratchpad, and then turned into a Twitter thread on its way to becoming the email you’re currently reading. Ever since I...

It's time to come out and say it: I think design sucks

December 14, 2021

Yes, I said it. Finally, for all to read: I think design sucks. And here's a part of the reason why. It's something I wrote about a year ago and have sat on...

Growing up in the valley

November 13, 2021

This piece has been on my mind for a while now, I started writing it over the of winter of 2020, and it’s only grown more relevant, both to the world at...

Knowledge producers and direct action

October 3, 2021

Just a warning: this one is a bit out there. Though I have a suspicion more of this type of writing will follow. Maybe play along and see where we end up? ❤️...

laying foundations for foundational research

April 18, 2021

A few weeks ago I was asked to give a quick overview of a project of which I'm most proud of the outcomes. It proved to be a good prompt for me to get my...

Return to Normal Considered Harmful

March 6, 2021

Next Monday will mark 52 weeks of official remote working for me and my colleagues. Many of us are in a similar situation. Some us us never stopped having to...

A horizon: thirty is growing on me

January 24, 2021

Goodbye 2020, hello 30. What a strange year to end the third decade of my life. Michelle and I were going to end our twenties with a year of catching up:...

A year of imagination

December 31, 2020

Happy New Year's Eve! As we end 2020 and begin another year, I want to encourage us to all to find ways to flex our imaginations a little. We’re told so...