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UX research, service design, and facilitation — possibly in that order, depending on the day. Dad. Avid reader, occasional writer, amateur vocalist and baker. He/him. Likely en route between Kingston, ON and Montreal, QC, Canada 🇨🇦
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this OPM career civil servant is risking a lot to share her situation slate.com/news-and-pol...

🎵 SPELLLING - Portrait of My Heart www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlUp...

TikTok’s fate is in SCOTUS’s hands. Here’s my wee @economist.com preview of this morning’s oral argument www.economist.com/catch-up-wor...

I am available for new contract work. I have 20+ years 😩 experience in web design and development and I’m still learning. I have written courses and books that have influenced interface design across the industry. I love prototyping, writing documentation, creative coding, and #a11y. 👋

Imagine you're part of a generation that hasn't been able to accrue property, capital, wealth. How do you hear phrases like "What's in it for me" and "Not in my backyard"?

One of the more thought-provoking ideas I heard at Code for America was Tom Preston-Werner's Readme Driven Development: By starting with the readme, you ensure a more-inclusive development effort tom.preston-werner.com/2010/08/23/r...

Enjoyed this interview with professor Heather Cox Richardson on how we might think about American democracy during/after a second Trump presidency podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...

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Jeff Bezos should read what I wrote today. Because he clearly doesn't understand why people are so upset and not trusting his paper anymore. www.techdirt.com/2024/10/28/h...

It is 2024 and all of us — but publishers, especially — are still processing what it means to exist in a world where it's never been easier to publish/share your thoughts. I see this every day I go online.

Okay well that sounds like a Supreme Court Justice colluding with the defense team of a former president* under multiple federal & state indictment so as to provide a path for manipulating legal proceedings which might fall under said justice's review. Seems REAL BAD. www.nytimes.com/live/2024/09...

Biden Advisors Think Strategy To Do Zero Prep And Keep Biden Awake For Past 72 Hours Working Great

I am an absolute sucker for prototyping and thinking through new interfaces for familiar tasks. Really cool. alexanderobenauer.com/ollos/