Making the Solution Transparent
Two ways I've noticed video can actually take less effort than writing, plus a meditation on an alternative to product roadmapping.
AI Meh-ptic
Another sporadic attempt to calibrate my attitude toward what we’re currently calling “artificial intelligence”, and its use as a prosthetic for writing software.
What Do You Do When a Piece of Your Stack Goes Bad?
The risks to your software supply chain, especially these days, include a lot more than just malware.
Why Pivot to Protocols
The current state of Sense Atlas (well, more accurately Intertwingler), and an announcement about office hours.
Making Sense of Sense Atlas
The goals and principles underpinning my nascent organizational cartography kit.
Two Christenings and a Funeral
Emerging from my cave to announce that the projects I've been working on for almost two decades are now online, so it's time to tell their stories.
À Propos Current Events
A survey of one small aspect of the current (geo)political situation, and what I'm doing about it.
For the Umarell In Your Life
Further elucidation of my plan to run a “cozy private alpha” of my organizational cartography kit, the essay that got me calling it that, and a final installment from last year's Summer of Protocols.
What Do You Mean By “Marketing”?
A friend ambushes me with a paper that causes me to adjust my mental dictionary with respect to what certain business-critical words mean.
In the Pipe, Five By Five
My first update since indefinitely suspending my activities on Substack. Nice to be back in the saddle.
So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Good Night
In which I decamp from Substack to Buttondown, and announce a new format for the newsletter.
Computers, Amirite?
Like I said, a rapid-fire strafing of ideas and occurrences. Really.
Inventor's Paradox
Last week in Intertwingler.
Pivot
Now that the Summer of Protocols is in the rear-view mirror, it's time to tee up the rest of the year.
Dog Days
As Summer of Protocols draws to a close, it's time to think about outcomes.
Conference
Preliminary report from IA Conference 2023, Chapter 7 of The Nature of Software coming soon, and Some Personal News™.
Confluence
Big update of many threads coming together: my upcoming Information Architecture Conference talk, a new chapter of The Nature of Software, and what's been eating my brain for the last several weeks.
Privacy by Design
Meditating on what it would take to design information systems that gave third parties only the information they needed to operate.
Canada Gooped
In which our intrepid protagonist really steps in it.
Muskus/Domesticus 🐀
Or: Who Moved My Cheese? Twitter Edition