I’m a sucker for the larger historical contexts of technology and culture. This book didn’t disappoint. I’m finding these types of books, where the author takes a contemporary idea and does a bunch of research and then writes a book to be less interesting than books with original ideas that are then supported with research. … continue reading

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The talk I gave for the UXPin Enterprise UX virtual conference on February 15, 2017.

I had lots of fun talking about data and design!

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Found this in my notes last night. It’s the list of things that I wanted to remember when I ran Mountain Lakes 100.

Tips I picked up from reading a lot of articles and from reading Jason Koop’s book, Training Essentials for Ultrarunning.… continue reading

I decided to get organized and stop dropping everything (links, notes, images, ideas) into Evernote (my distributed cognition 2nd brain) so I decided to try Pocket.

I don’t like that I’m locked into Pocket and can only share links with friends through a Pocket url.… continue reading

Good read following Hooked and The World Beyond your Head. Same topics but dialing in on choice architecture and variable rewards.

How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds — from a Magician and Google’s Design Ethicist

The takeaway is to always consider (when presented with a fixed set of choices, options, menu items) what is not in the list and why.… continue reading

Not that I’ve looked very hard, but I haven’t found a good way to get to the highlights I make in the books I read on the Kindle. In Crawford’s book, I took pictures within a note in Evernote and let Evernote handle the OCR scan.  … continue reading