Interesting new piece by UX and CX shaper Jakob Nielsen. Transformative AI Changes the Future of Work and Firms open.substack.com/pub/jakobnie... #AI #economy #CX

Design books The Design Thinking Playbook by Michael Lewrick, Patrick Link, Larry Leifer Good practical advice and tools www.wiley.com/en-us/The+De... #Booksky #books #design #designbooks #designthinking

from Winter Yellow Writing 19 1987 I havens a decline. Beyond what all eternal — given back. And fillet Alms. #poetry #place

1st lines Two limestone plates support the Aegean world. The greater Anatolian still lies flat, But half an aeon since, through silent eyes: 'Ave!' God watched the counterplate subside, until ... From War Music by Christopher Logue 2001 #1stlines #poetry #France #translation

2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions. Ellul helped me think more critically about technology and society and helped me imagine different possible futures. #Booksky #2books #design #urbanism #economics #technology

Reading The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien. Here is a review in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m... #Booksky #novels #DuFu #Spinoza #Arendt

Monitoring pain As the days get shorter Waiting for surgery #poetry #haiku #fall

Design books Design for the Mind by Victor S. Yocco www.manning.com/books/design... #Booksky #books #design #designbooks #psychology

Design books Articulating Design Decisions by Tom Greever. Because design is a flow of small decisions. www.oreilly.com/library/view... #Booksky #design #books #designbooks

from Calls This - Abacus 1987 the other day today like wisps of nimbus of the sky to close give a reed bunting by water that too and you to listening. #poetry #naming

1st lines I am a father, Sire. Weak like the rest, It is not hard for me to feel with you; And, shuddering at the blow that makes you grieve, I do not blame your tears; I too would weep. From Iphigenia by Jean Racine tr by John Caincross 1674 #1stlines #poetry #France #translation

2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions. Jane Jacobs could see that the direction we were taking 30 years ago would have bad outcomes. We will change this at the local level first. #Booksky #2books #design #urbanism #economics

I write poems & field notes → stygian-muse.com/start-here/ Begin here for context, samplers, & my posting rhythm. New poems every Tue & Thu. #poetry

Compelling piece on Robert Munsch's struggle with cognitive decline and creativity. Thank you to the CBC www.cbc.ca/radio/frontb... #kidsbooks #Munsch #dementia #CBC

I have the impression that everything I've managed to write has emanated out of a succession of edges: the edge, first, of consciousness, operating, in turn, at the edge - the geographic, linguistic edge ... Gustaf Sobin in conversation with Tedi Lopez Mills #poetry #margins #liminal #Sobin

from Calls This - Abacus 1987 the bunting pauses closer pausing repeats its call its flighting are there are threads of reed bunting its nest. listening to water trip drop by again #poetry #naming

1st lines Contact assured with a passing cod trawler (festooned with nets) by means of the heliograph. I marvel at this communication: man speaking with the voice of the sun. From Telegrams by Gustaf Sobin 1973 #1stlines #poetry #Sobin

2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions. Understanding how cities driven the economy and how they trade with each other is critical to understaning the economy. #Booksky #2books #design #urbanism #economics

To go deeper into the foundations of AI I really like George Lakoff & Srini Narayanan The Neural Mind. "Embodied action involves the following causal capacities: enabling possibilities, creating probabilities, and brining about consequences." press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... #AI #cognition

Design books Aalto in Detail: A catalogue of components by Céline Dietziker and Lukas Gruntz #Booksky #design #books #designbooks #architecture

from Calls This - Abacus 1987 that too and something less listening a reed bunting too far off listening to the to gaps is there water by water. #poetry #naming

1st lines stone drums, stacked into rows of brown tubulous lilies. (vase) out of the earliest geometries, it's the animals that evolve: animals, fish, gods ... From Sicilian Miniatures by Gustaf Sobin 1973 #1stlines #poetry #Sobin

2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions. I learn a lot from urban design to apply to other systems. #Booksky #2books #design #urbanism #patterns

"Left to its own devices, nature will create something more beautiful and unique than a packet of yeast ever could. You just need a little faith" More magic from @simonjwoolf.com

Gord Hill: The Antifa Comic Book Important for the times we live in. Am getting copies for myself and the local book exchange. arsenalpulp.com/Books/T/The-... #America #Canada #Booksky #comics #Antifa

Orange wine (white wine grapes kept on their skins for a while during fermentation) are a wonderful thing to explore. Simon Wolf wrote the book on this (Amber Revolution) and has an excellent Substack. themorningclaret.com #wine #orangewine #naturalwine #biodynamic

To put some color on this: SEPTA tried the expansion strategy in Schuylkill Valley Metro with proper electrification and frequency, but they were repeatedly shot down by FTA no matter how hard they tried to make it work. Infrequent diesel commuter rail was the flavor of the day

Very much looking forward to reading this, it will become the standard English language reference on renga. cup.columbia.edu/book/linked-... #Booksky #Japan #poetry #renga

Design books Living Design The Writings of Clara Porset An essential designer. www.concordia.ca/press/living... #Booksky #books #design #designbooks #Mexico #Cuba

Robert Munsch's stories have been important to my children and grandchildren, and to me. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/29c0992... #Canada #Booksky #books #Munsch #kidsbooks

from Calls This - Abacus 1987 to embroider absence with intent. and pass in spaces of a day the air drifts free. #poetry #naming

1st lines over the puffed white sleeves of your blouse, your endless eyes stare backwards, buoying me in this elision of sound. what words, though, would ... From Articles of Light and Elation by Gustaf Sobin 1973 #1stlines #poetry #Celan #German #translation

‪ 2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions. I learn a lot from urban design to apply to other systems. #Booksky #2books #design #urbanism #algorithme #patterns

Fruit fly dead In the water glass End of summer #poetry #haiku #summer

Rediscovered the work of Cuban. Mexican designer Clara Porset while reading about Ruth Asawa. They met in Mexico City in 1945. www.moma.org/artists/3661... #design #Mexico #Cuba

Really like the line up for Bard On the Beach's 2026 season. Plan to go to all four of these, hopefully with my granddaughters. Macbeth and Antigone especially. bardonthebeach.org/whats-on/202... #Vancouver #theatre #Shakespeare #BardontheBeach

Looking forward to going up the mountain to visit this. A Bold New Art Museum Opens on SFU's Burnaby Mountain Campus by Russell Gordon via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Presents/202... #Canada #BC #Vancouver #Burnaby #SFU #art

Some context on Kneecap, the band the Canadian government has decided to censor. www.npr.org/2025/07/03/g... #Canada #freespeech #Kneecap

Just arrived: The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future, by Stephen Marche. Thought it was relevant to read it now.

I miss being able to go to the US. There are cities I love, roads to travel, people I miss. But the US I knew seems to be going away. There is a lot in this piece by Stephen Marche that resonates. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... #US #Canada

What’s everyone #reading this weekend? #books #Booksky

We lean about ourselves by learning about others. How China Moves Fast and Breaks Things by Crawford Killian via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Culture/2025... #China #US #Canada #growth #Governance

Wonderful 3D mappings of some transit stations around the world. stations.albertguillaumes.cat #design #transit #3D

Wonderful interactive explaining hoe UTF8 character encoding works. I need UTF16 for a lot of what I think about, but this is useful. A thank you to all the people who have worked on Unicode. utf8-playground.netlify.app/0048 #design #type #encoding #Unicode

Design books Analogia by George Dyson www.penguin.co.uk/books/188629... #Booksky #books #design #designbooks #evolution #systems

from Calls This - Abacus 1987 to pass into pieces of sky like cloud. as cloud sky’s breath the trill breath’s tool #poetry #naming

1st lines words that wouldn't rebound in dull percussions but being the air's potential and reaching into the air's uttermost muscles, as breath would burst, and vibrant From Hakko by Gustaf Sobin 1973 #1stlines #poetry #Celan #German #translation

2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions. Riding a bicycle around a city is a good way to understand how to get around the city and the feel of the different neighbourhoods. #Booksky #2books #design #urbanism #economics #patterns

Canada will never get CO2 emissions under control without scaling down the Alberta bitumen sands. Oil and gas: Emissions rose 1.9% from the previous year, driven by a 3.4% increase in oil sands emissions. climateinstitute.ca/news/2024-em... #Alberta #Canada #climatechange #oilsands #tarsands