We are creatures of symbols, and our architecture tells us who we are. Adam Gopnik, “Teardown,” The New Yorker, Nov. 3, 2025

Friendly reminder to support your local independent bookstore this weekend! A slightly less friendly reminder to just not buy books from Am*zon at all.

It sounds like a whisper Don't you know Talking about a revolution? It sounds like a whisper 🤍 open.spotify.com/track/0YMFcr...

Look at the hands you hold.

I planted a tree this weekend. Yesterday it rained. Progress is like that.

Next slide please.

I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in. - Tennessee Williams

To do list: * Go to the Information Architecture Conference in April. * Attend this @daviddylanthomas.bsky.social workshop (because we need more of this now). www.theiaconference.com/sessions/inc...

This week! Let's talk about content design and design systems and how we can make them both better! Join me at Button Workshop Days.

Your friendly neighborhood librarian here...buy physical copies of your favorite books, especially challenged or banned books. Preferably from small local merchants. That's all; carry on. #Read #BookSky #Resist 📚

Alice, the world is full of ugly things That you can't change Pretend it's not that way It's my idea of faith You can blow it off And say there's good in nearly everyone Just give them all a chance Now let's give them all a chance —Ben Folds

Thanks, @halvorson.bsky.social and the rest of the good folks at Button for helping me spread the word about #content, #DesignSystems, and ways to bring efficiency to both of them. www.buttonconf.com/blog/how-to-...

The brilliant filmmaker and content strategist @daviddylanthomas.bsky.social is out for blood. Metaphorically, of course. Help him out. www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...

I came to explore the wreck. The words are purposes. The words are maps. poets.org/poem/diving-...

In one month! Button Workshop Days! Let's share discoveries, strategies, and tactics for content in design systems. Collaborate with a bunch of your smart peers and me as we make content, design, and systems better. #ContentDesign #ContentStrategy #DesignSystems www.buttonconf.com/events/consi...

Looking forward to sharing #DesignSystems and #Content strategies and tactics "with" the brilliant Michael Lawrence during Button Workshop Days! www.buttonconf.com/events/consi...

Today we march.

Right now, in this coffee shop, in this east coast town, an old man is singing along to Lucinda Williams. This gives me great joy.

I just quoted The Who in a Slack channel. This has been a successful day.

I just want to drink tea all day and look at the snow.

Christmas dialogue in my house. Child 1: What kind of Christmas music is that? Child 2: That’s Fur Elise. Child 3: Who’s Elise? She doesn’t even go here.

I never thought it was such a bad little tree. It’s not bad at all, really. Maybe it just needs a little love. - Charles Schulz

It's so hard to believe that what the world wants is us. It's hard to believe, whatever you're doing, that you're enough. We are all, always, enough. —Barbara Cook

Finally had THE TALK with my son about the Elf on the Shelf. My son's 15. He took it pretty well.

The right word is always a power, and communicates its definiteness to our action. —George Eliot, Middlemarch

I'm sad, but I'm laughing.

It’s like an early holiday present for me.

“Hope” is the thing with feathers - That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without the words - And never stops - at all - — Emily Dickinson

I just quoted Joni Mitchell to a coworker and the day suddenly got better.