Just thought y'all should know that this morning I coughed with coffee in my mouth and spewed it all over my desk and monitors. Equally horrifying and hilarious.

One of the best parts of being a consultant is seeing multiple companies' "Pets" channels in Slack/Teams/etc.

Just thought y'all needed to see Shadow sitting like a doofus.

New flag, who dis? (Sons of Liberty flag) Thanks @flagsforgood.com!

Every layoff announcement should be required to also list the CEO's salary and amount of taxes paid in the previous year.

The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.

The new Wood Brothers album is amazing. Even better than their previous album. The lyrics are so poignant and this track is absolute fire. The Trick is not to give a damn. I can get behind that. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqCK...

Hocus Pocus by Focus - a 7-minute song fit into a 5-minute TV time slot without skippning a beat. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyxS...

One comp exam down, three to go. Definitely one of the harder things I've ever done. Quite the weekend.

usually I am a ‘need for speed’ type of researcher , but I was also a heavy proponent of manual analysis the work is excruciating, tedious, etc… but the outcome is extraordinary. the trend of researchers offloading qualitative research to AI is freaking me out (beyond the automation bias)

Needed some good news. Prog fans rejoice! www.stereogum.com/2314598/king...

I think we all need some beautiful and inspirational music this morning www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x3t...

Careful out there today folks!

AI may make us cognitively bankrupt: www.media.mit.edu/publications... x.com/itsalexvacca...

I've come to the conclusion that Occam's Razor has become outdated in the modern age. I hereby propose to replace it with Occam's Spoon. The explanation that makes the least sense is probably true

Wednesday's concert reminded me how much I love The Wheel. So beautiful and inspirational. Every time that wheel turn 'round, bound to cover just a little more ground. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZK8...

If this keeps up, we're gonna have a popcorn shortage pretty soon.

Jerry Garcia Symphonic Celebration with the Boston Pops was pretty darn amazing.

Audience member plays Stu's guitar on Dragon and absolutely nails it. What other band would do this? Gizz is the best. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkBA...

New car mod. Beware, tailgaters.

Another day, another attempt at turning off Copilot in mobile Outlook

Imagine telling someone from the 1970s that in the future the tech industry, corporate CEOs and world leaders had a choice between SQL and ELIZA as tools to help grow the economy and they chose ELIZA

I'm a little obsessed with this diagram instructing users where to enter a URL.

If I had a dollar for every time I heard my content is good, but my visual design sucks, I'd be a rich man.

Anyone have a quick way to convert .VTT transcript files into a format that NVivo likes?

Watermelon in Easter Hay is Zappa's finest guitar solo. Sublime and soulful. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3cu...

Shadow timeline cleanser

UX Fortune Cookie: The best design process welcomes chaos at the start but demands order by the end. #ux #fortunecookie

Zappa's What's New in Baltimore? goes through so many emotional phases and is such a great example of his unique guitar playing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhDd...

I always get a little kick when I write "see you next Wednesday" in an email.

Usability/usefulness of Snell Charts: Opthalmologists really should mix up the letters in their Snell Charts for those of us who visit frequently enough to have the charts memorized. E V O T Z 2

"Errors live in a weird space between design and development, so they sometimes get lost in the mix." HubSpot interviewed me about the Usability Heuristic "Recognize, Diagnose, and Recover from Errors." Here's the full article that covers all 10 standard heuristics.

Just discovered that Ian Anderson played with PFM in 2010. Amazing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIXZ...

Go Bentley!

Shout out to the @bentleyu.bsky.social men's hockey team for winning the Atlantic Hockey championship! They're playing in the NCAA tourney for their first time against BC - 2pm on Friday at SNHU Arena in Manchester. I'll be there! Go Falcons!

I sat outside and read today for the first time this year. It was lovely.

A new Dominican restaurant opened in Waltham. Never thought I'd be able to get pernil delivered, but here we are. It was amazing.

Monday morning hype song: Hell's Bells by Bill Bruford www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcZ6...

Jam bands need to start covering Paul Pena's Venusian Lady youtu.be/36Lil88kJM0?...

It's odd that you never hear Music for Airports at the airport. youtu.be/vNwYtllyt3Q?...

Two movie foods live rent free in my brain and come to mind quite easily: the cheeseburger from The Menu and the omelette from Defending Your Life. Want that omelette so bad.

Turing Award winners speak out about the dangers of AI, testing with the public, and companies putting profit over safety. Amen.

Wednesday morning hype song: Raw Feel by KGLW Because experience is different for everyone One thing for me might be three for some And you can never know this, but you think you do The same shit for me ain't the same shit for you

Next Thu and Fri, I'll be teaching the Usability Research class in the @bentleyu.bsky.social #UX Certificate program. It's a fun two days of geeking out about research. Come join the fun either in person or online!

Here’s a cybertruck getting booed at Orpheus to brighten your Lundi Gras:

So, umm, when will <gestures wildly> all this come to a stop? I'm tired.

This by @ethanmarcotte.com is exceedingly well said: “the billionaire's so-called ‘efficiency’ ‘department’ is best understood as a sprawling form of procurement capture”

Now playing: toe. the book about my idle plot on a vague anxiety Dark horse desert island disc. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tf5...

Top notch beef at Nick's Place in Burlington. The bun really tied the beef together.