After four years of radio silence (yikes!) I’ve begun blogging again. Most of what I write about is the practical side of my work as a web designer/developer. But I also want a place to explore and write–at least occasionally–about my other interests...
In The Unsettling of America, Wendell Berry writes:
The exploiter is a specialist, an expert; the nurturer is not. The standard of the exploiter is efficiency; the standard of the nurturer is care. The exploiter’s goal is money, profit; the nurturer...
I was an interdisciplinary studies major in college. Instead of looking at the world from one discipline’s perspective, I was taught to pull together the methods and insights from multiple disciplines when studying something or trying to solve a problem...
I recently finished reading The Shape of Design, by one of my favorite designers and writers, Frank Chimero.
Here are my favorite quotes from the book:
The relationship between form and purpose – How and Why – is symbiotic. But despite this...
I really love kottke.org. It’s one of the few blogs I still personally visit, rather than consuming via RSS. For reasons I can’t quite explain (maybe nostalgia for the old days of blogging? maybe experiencing the work as a creator intended it?), I...
It’s clear that Google cares deeply about improving the mobile web experience. Personally, I tend to believe that the native app pendulum has swung out about as far as it can, and in the next few years we’ll start seeing it swing back toward web tech...
Innovation happens when you have the bandwidth to hold the entire problem in your head- most of the time that takes a great deal of “load time” - research and contemplation about the problem. For introverts this means quiet, for extroverts this means...
This 3-part interview of Kevin Kelly by Tim Ferriss is wonderful.
Great post on why politeness matters:
Sometimes I’ll get a call or email from someone five years after the last contact and I’ll think, oh right, I hated that person. But they would never have known, of course. Let’s see if I still hate them. Very...
Fascinating long-read about a private investigator who infiltrates cults:
Although most cults use the same basic psychological techniques, they each have their own codes, symbols, and lexicon. Often the only way to reach an indoctrinated member is...