I was going to just write a few notes on why I'd want to buy a 25-year-old SUV and ended up indicting late-stage capitalism. another.rodeo/4runner-intro/

Sandra Day Real Estate

Wait, did the rapture happen and I missed it? I should get out more.

Morning earworm www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO5A...

Good morning m.youtube.com/watch?v=We_9...

I think hotels should give out merit badges for successfully figuring out their shower, and then when you travelled you could wear a big sash with all your badges.

Dead Like Me. Brilliant show.

Morning ear worm: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhRr...

Age verification? I've sat in the nausea-inducing, rear-facing third-row of a giant station wagon.

Age verification? I've sat in the smoking section on an airplane.

Slightly diminish a book: The February of Our Discontent.

In news I'm sure absolutely no one in 2025 is interested in, I updated and refreshed my little blog thing: another.rodeo Now I can feel like I've indulged in the obligatory self-promotion and can get on with my day.

Every designer I know is weeping this morning. Every developer, too. But I’m really feeling it for my content friends.

Slashwut

Until I saw the linked story I thought this post was about the US.

The Ramens

The designer/operations heart of me loves that MCI airport overcame bad design and confusion about which lines to be in by putting up colored balloons for regular entry and TSA Pre.

I hate to break it to white people everywhere but Janis Joplin’s version of Piece of my Heart is at least the 3rd best version of the song, behind Mavis Staples and Erma Franklin.

Thinking about all those folks who would deny a poor person a hot prepared meal but have no problem with Elon Musk getting 29 billion in the foolish hope he’ll stop being an erratic, self-destructive jackass.

I realized today I built my first website 30 years ago. I am old.

Started my morning with a little Bo Diddley. m.youtube.com/watch?v=dvhn...

The future of freelance web work.

Was reminded this morning of this thing I wrote awhile back… > Fred Rogers understood this well: for everything we value — for anything we value — there is something else we are choosing not to value, whether we’re aware of it or not. another.rodeo/values/

Me: I just can't shake the feeling something really bad is going to happen soon. The world: [Evil laugh] You mean even worse than [waves hands] *ALL OF THIS???* Me: Yeah. Even worse. I don't know what it is, but I feel it coming.

Don't let your guilty pleasure be ELO or Cheap Trick or Abba or someone else who was maybe embarrassing back in the 70s or 80s. Let your guilty pleasure be someone who's embarrassing now, like Van Morrison or Morrissey.

This was always the power of using public Slack channels in a company: you share knowledge locked up in specific employee brains and make it transparent to the entire org, long-term https://mastodon.social/@jessie/114743379402097019

@ronbronson.com this came up on a playlist today, and since you’ve been enjoying bloopy 80s I thought you might like it. m.youtube.com/watch?v=3GIC...

I sold Alice Cooper donuts. Robert Mitchum, too. River Phoenix and I once got into a minor altercation. Elliot Easton (Cars guitarist extraordinaire) once yelled at me for making Brian Setzer upset.

RIP Sly and Thank You. (if anyone hasn't seen the Sly Lives documentary on Hulu/Netflix, you should)

I think I should probably update my Online Maturity Model Generator (maturity-model.online) with new AI models.

Reminded today of 25 Rules of Adult Behavior. After all these years, not a bad list.

Got the camper out today to get it ready for next weekend. Probably going to sell it after that. I’ll miss it, even though I don’t like camping much.

So, why didn’t anyone tell me season 2 of Last of Us just isn’t very good?

Morning thought: "AI Innovation" is nearly always fundamentally a service design problem and is almost never thought of as one.

Before you can have a successful podcast, you have to know how to talk to people.

It's a damn shame we already used the phrase "gilded age"

It’s kind of funny how we spend 10 years telling people “bring your authentic self to work” and now everyone wants to bring their little AI buddy.

@ronbronson.com I blame you for this being in my head all day. Thanks! m.youtube.com/watch?v=lQa1...

Starting the next #bike project, another old Monark. But the build will be different from the last one.

You can tell modern developers because they put their profanity in their AI prompts instead of their commit messages.

Y'know, Kermit, there really aren't THAT many songs about rainbows.

I grew up on the wrong side of the tracks in a town best known for being "The Poorest Place in America". But it was also once nominated as "The Most Corrupt Town in America", too. I was very lucky: there were not nearly so many gatekeepers when I was trying to find my way.

I wonder how nobody involved with Claude.ai told them about Kurt Vonnegut's most famous doodle, from Breakfast of Champions.

I'm happy that people are eulogizing 18F so beautifully, because I can't find the words myself. And yet each eulogy makes it even harder for me to find the words myself.

Way, way too many leaders I've known didn't get this, delighted in fire alarms, and saw their teams burn.

Most of you likely know, but I maintain a few resources for job-hunters: 1. dscovery.fly.dev aggregates Digital Services Coalition and Digital Women-Owned Small Business Alliance (DWOSBA) civic tech jobs....

Amazon believes, based on my shopping trends, that I need 3,360 Peel and Stick Mirror Disco Tiles. Who am I to say they're wrong?

For some reason I've had this song stuck in my head for weeks now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcfX...