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Not Just Unicorns: A Designer Bestiary
Let’s talk unicorns. And I’m not thinking of Twilight Sparkle. Legends about the unicorn differ, as is typical with mythical beasts. Some tales describe interaction designers who are…
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Reading #57: War, Utopias, and the Renaissance
Nonfiction Just And Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument With Historical Illustrations by Michael Walzer This isn’t an easy book to read, although it isn’t quite as dry as…
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Fifteen years in San Francisco
Fifteen years ago today I arrived in San Francisco. Not for the first time–I’d been here once as a kid on summer vacation–but this time I intended to…
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Reading #56: Elites, Apocalypses, and Tentacle Noir
There are some damn good books in this one. Nonfiction Twilight Of the Elites: America after Meritocracy – Christopher Hayes Hayes (aka “the host of that show…
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Stamen design & why my commute used to suck
First, go look at this Stamen Design project. Here's how they describe it: Historically, workers have lived in residential suburbs while commuting to work in the city. For…
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A life lesson, or, what is seen cannot be unseen.
It was a lesson I should already have learned. I had learned it. Many years ago, as a teenager growing up in Washington D.C., I worked a summer…
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