📣 Applications for UX Mentoring in 2026 now open! 📣 ℹ️ Info here: www.linkedin.com/posts/danmbr... 🐶 Dog for algorithm

Today I gave away food to the hungry. The food was a sandwich and the hungry was me. It was lunchtime.

I'm working on a novel and this morning I crested 41,000 words. It's the longest piece of fiction I've ever written. When I attempted last year, I lost steam at 40,680 words. My goal: 75k words by the end of December.

In search of: Podcast guest who can speak to disinformation about the US economy. I have a podcast called Unchecked about disinformation and the systems that enable it. We've covered vaccines, gun violence, climate change, + more. Send recs to [email protected] unchecked.buzzsprout.com

Today I learned that anagrammatic homophones are two words that sound the same and are anagrams of each other, like tied and tide. Today I also learned that large language models can not grasp this concept.

Taxonomists! Board gamers! Come join me, @brownorama.bsky.social, @cacheblaster.bsky.social and Chantal Schweizer at #taxonomybootcamp www.taxonomybootcamp.com/2025/Agenda.... for our panel on Taxonomies, Data Models, and Board Games focused on the brilliant game #Wingspan - Monday 17 November

Imagine what the world would be like if instead of AI, the technology that was unfettered by regulation and targeted for investment was renewable energy.

#nokings bingo: Epstein

Unchecked Episode 7! @rachelprice.bsky.social and I talk to Brandon Schauer (ex-Adaptive Path and ex-Capital One) about his work on shifting behavior to help with climate change. 🏮🪰 Also, new look for Unchecked, featuring invasive species Spotted Lantern Fly. Please listen, review, and share!

We’re back! In the first episode of season 4, @brownorama.bsky.social joins Design Downtime to talk about his love of board games. (I’m shocked it took me this long to get to this topic…)

Tylenol people be like: First they came for the vaccines And I did not speak out Because I was not a vaccine...

📣📣📣Dropped today: Episode 6️⃣ of Unchecked: The Architecture of #Disinformation with @cward1e.bsky.social In every episode of Unchecked, we talk to an expert, reflecting on our practice as designers and identifying novel perspectives to bring to our work. unchecked.buzzsprout.com/2448940/epis...

I am an early bird in a family of night owls AMA

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An independent video game that was first teased in 2019 is finally dropping tomorrow. They announced the release date two weeks ago, and my 14yo son has spoken of little else. You'd think the messiah was coming.

Harris Teeter reading the writing on the wall.

Besides all the creative solutions people are discussing, there’s one thing everyone can do: M A S K

In Ep 5 of Unchecked, @rachelprice.bsky.social and I talk to @daviddylanthomas.bsky.social about the role of #cognitivebias in #disinformation. We discuss the fundamental attribution error, framing effect, and confirmation bias, and how even true information can be misconstrued. Check it out!

Had a great time talking to @rachelprice.bsky.social and @brownorama.bsky.social about misinformation on the latest episode of their podcast. Check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BVp...

Be honest: When an LLM tells you that you're brilliant, that your ideas are great, that your insights are smart, how much does it affect you? Before you answer, allow me to remind you of the Third Person Effect: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-p...

Just wrote this and I think I found Brown's Paradox of Product IA: As digital products become more complex, people have even higher expectations about how they can interact with information within those products.

Love my governor

New game: Tell your spouse that you learned something cool from ChatGPT and then just repeat something that they've been telling you for years.

🎉 One year ago, I launched The UX Consultants Lounge, a podcast about the real, messy, and meaningful work of UX consulting. Twelve months and eleven episodes later, it’s still going strong! 📍 You can find it on your favorite podcast platform or at uxconsultantslounge.com

Another day, another patient portal.

Have you listened to Unchecked, my podcast with @rachelprice.bsky.social about the architecture of disinformation? In every episode we look at a different information ecosystem, identifying strategies to make our product designs more resilient. Episode 4 features civic tech legend Dana Chisnell.

So much fun to chat with @kylesoucy.bsky.social about running small consulting firms, and the transition last year from EightShapes to Curious Squid. Kyle is, no surprise, a great interviewer. She got me to spill a couple of gems and she made it seem effortless!

STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

Unchecked podcast welcomes @adamratnermd.bsky.social 👨🏼‍⚕️, author of Booster Shots 🎧 New episode! In Episode 3 @rachelprice.bsky.social and I talk to Adam Ratner, a pediatric infectious disease specialist based in New York City. unchecked.buzzsprout.com/2448940/epis...

Instead of asking if a new technology is good or bad ask, “Does this technology consolidate power or distribute power?” From @karenhao.bsky.social’s appearance at Politics and Prose.

I have both *thoughts* and *feelings* about Trump attacking Harvard. And I want to share them with you.

Huh. Pocket is closing up shop. OK, folks, I need a bookmark manager. Help?

With all technology products becoming cloud-based, the gesture ⌘-S is becoming increasingly irrelevant and eventually obsolete. It is so ingrained, however, could it ever be assigned another meaning? In a future where you never need to "save," what does ⌘-S mean?

When this is all over, the U.S. is going to need a Truth & Reconciliation Commission to tally up all the deaths from DOGE cuts. From African refugees dying due to USAID cuts to food & medicine to Americans who died because there was no one to staff the tornado warning system. It’s a bloody tally.

Caught this bumper sticker on the back of a car this morning: Pray for Tr*mp Psalms 109: 8 For those like me not intimately familiar with the Bible, enjoy: www.bibleref.com/Psalms/109/P...

👋 New podcast on disinformation 🎉 In "Unchecked: The Architecture of Disinformation", @rachelprice.bsky.social and I look at the epidemic of misinformation and how modern info ecosystems are being manipulated. Our first episode is with @susannahrfox.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/u...

Hill I will die on: The @amtrak.com quiet car is the greatest invention in human history.

Killing it at @theiaconf.bsky.social is @daviddylanthomas.bsky.social

Fuck. This. Shit. The lunch counter display at NMAAHC is an especially powerful exhibit among many, many powerful exhibits. It serves as a reminder that resistance and change must start with small acts. And it embodies progress. We bury history at our peril. blackpressusa.com/the-smithson...

Toxicologist here! This will improve the health of zero Americans. Current synthetic food dyes are not causing health problems, and are often times used because they are actually safer than natural food dyes. Reminder that guns are the #1 cause of death of children but we are going to ban food dyes.

"Our colleges and universities share a commitment to serve as centers of open inquiry where … faculty, students, and staff are free to exchange ideas and opinions across a full range of viewpoints without fear of retribution, censorship, or deportation." 👏👏👏 www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...

What was the last “clip show” you watched?

Designers: remember when we used to talk about designing for serendipity? Seems quaint. @etymologynerd.bsky.social reminds us of its beauty. "beautiful, unscripted synchronicities would’ve been replaced with a transactional commodification of my free time" open.substack.com/pub/etymolog...

"Diversity is discrimination" is literally Orwellian language, like "war is peace, hate is love, slavery is freedom." You can find it at civilrights.justice.gov

Featured sessions include: 🔹 Tradeoffs: Decision-making in Information Architecture | Workshop with Dan Brown @brownorama.bsky.social 👉 Strategies to help you navigate tough choices and balance competing needs in your IA practice. Learn more: www.theiaconference.com/sessions/tra...

@citizencohn.bsky.social @timmiller.bsky.social On board games, independent publisher has an informative blog post on the impact of tariffs on his business. This company makes excellent games including the runaway best seller Wingspan. stonemaiergames.com/the-math-of-...

Was reminded of this article recently, for some reason. "if you try to make the world fit neatly into an ideological box, you’ll have to distort or ignore reality to do it — usually with terrible consequences" www.vox.com/policy-and-p...

Top of NYT app this morning has a defiant picture of Trump at White House, despite fact (1) Trump actually spent weekend golfing & taking bags of cash from House of Saud (2) economy crashing (3) mass protests reduced to small note without pictures way down on the page

Massive turn-out for the Hands Off rally in Washington DC today. See if you can find any coverage of it in @washingtonpost.com or @nytimes.com. Go ahead I’ll wait.