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We're thrilled to celebrate the launch of the Digital Thriving Playbook! Tune into the Virtual Summit Tuesday, Feb. 25 from 1-6pm PT - and Michael Preston leads a fireside chat with Kimberly Voll, Natasha Miller, and Weszt Hart at 2:15pm PT. Registration is free!

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NYT WTF? @nytimes.com this headline is so irresponsible. It normalizes Musk’s coup. Musk is not elected or confirmed. He is likely compromised and certainly has conflicts of interest. He is not “transforming government”. He is endangering Americans.

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I get unreasonably pumped when everyone in a meeting has a last name that's also a plain English word, and not a proper noun. (Upcoming call has a brown, a price, and a fox.)

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Uhm. Is it just me or does @washingtonpost.com have no coverage of the protests today?

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There’s a real chance that we staring down a new pandemic in the form of bird flu. It could never happen or happen in the coming months. And we are in the process of decimating our core national public health and infectious disease service.

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Tech bros cheering on the cuts to grant funding built businesses and wealth on the back of decades of university R&D work. Much of that knowledge was given away to the public. This is basic pulling-up-the-ladder nonsense via rewriting history. They owe the public, not the other way around.

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I broke a rib Saturday after I slipped on icy porch steps. I just sneezed for the first time since it happened. It was excruciating.

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If you are terrified about what's happening to our government, this is worth your time.

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In a couple weeks I'm hosting a book club meeting for The Secret Life of Data, a new book published by MIT Press about how data is used beyond its initial purpose. Learn more and register here: lu.ma/49xnmpr1

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DC-area health nerds, listen up! My friend @adamratnermd.bsky.social will be in town Feb 23 at Politics and Prose discussing his exciting new book Booster Shots: The Urgent Lessons of Measles and the Uncertain Future of Children's Health. politics-prose.com/adam-ratner

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“We have essential medicines rotting in warehouses in the DRC because we can’t operate the air conditioning." Cruelty is the point. This story is one drop in a firehose of horror, but the ramifications will be felt for years to come, long after the goons are gone. www.nbcnews.com/news/politic...

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Any day I can introduce someone to Abbie Richards' Conspiracy Chart is a good day. conspiracychart.com

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Living in the DC area, EVERY neighbor I chat up has been impacted by the illegal shenanigans – whether they work for the federal government, a contractor, a multilateral, or outside the government. Shout out to the neighbor hosting a Public Servant Open House on Sat to provide solidarity. ✊

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“Apple Inc. has been secretly working with SpaceX & T-Mobile US to add support for Starlink network in its latest iPhone software, providing an alternative to the company’s in-house satellite-communication service” Perhaps it was done in secret because users don’t want Musk’s tech on our phones?

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I use the phrase "in that moment" with some frequency in my writing, and the grammar checker in Docs is always correcting me to "at that moment". Wondering if this is the New Yorker in me that waits "on line" and not "in line".

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Montgomery County Public Schools comes out and tells Trump to pound sand with his EO telling schools that they have to discriminate against transgender students. This is how you refuse to comply.

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Read the room @linkedin.com

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📣 Final call! Join us today for a free webinar on mapping flow charts Details and sign-up here: lu.ma/cmak593t

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The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH** * Currently paused by Executive Order ** Grant reviews now all canceled www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...

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Had to say goodbye to this sweet little beagle today. Maple was with us for 12 wonderful years and we were lucky to have her. Please give your faithful companions an extra treat or two in her honor. Rest in treats Maple

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"It’s the ultimate icebreaker: 𝗮 𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘂𝗮𝗹, 𝗹𝗼𝘄-𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗸 𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗱𝗼𝘇𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗜𝗔𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗵𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗺𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘄𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀 – made even easier because there’s a topic right there in front of you." – Andy Fitzgerald, PhD 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 #𝗜𝗔𝗖's 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁.

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Why I go to The IA Conference @theiaconf.bsky.social and I hope you do, too – A Thread The IA Conference is an annual community-run conference for information architecture. I’ve been to most of them, and it’s the event I look forward to most every year. Here’s why...

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“When people show you who they are, believe them.” — Dr Maya Angelou

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You know you're an information architect when you say to your client, "Some aquariums have penguins."

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As information architects, we must address disinformation and misinformation in the digital spaces we design, build, curate, and manage. Disinformation is no longer solely a wartime tactic. It is a social virus. I'll be spending some time this year on this. If you have thoughts, I'm interested!

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I have a newsletter! curioussquid.substack.com

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One week from today, I hope you'll join me for the first Build Your IA Playbook of 2025: Map the flow. It's free! It's fun! Details and sign-up here: lu.ma/cmak593t

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Emerging independent news outlets are a happy outcome of the dismal political/social landscape. Of new pub @contrariannews.bsky.social, editor Jen Rubin says to expect “reported opinion and commentary” Call me skeptical. The world doesn't need more commentary. It needs more responsible reporting.

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Yes, I'm a hammer so everything is a nail, but the problems with Sonos' app can be traced to poor information architecture. Anyway, the whole thing reminds me of this poster I presented way back at The IA Summit in 2005: Architecting Music Libraries. www.flickr.com/photos/brown...

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I have about a dozen different quarterly catch-up calls with friends and colleagues. Since I'm a remote, sole practitioner, these are my hallway conversations, my persistent connections to the community, and my mental health breaks all rolled into one.

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To misquote those to whom the original is attributed: ~ If I had more time, I would have designed a simpler architecture ~ I thought of this when my client said their site's navigation should strive for "ruthless simplicity".

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A misconception about information architecture is that it can only solve deep, systemic problems. We used to call this "Big IA". The industry has forgotten that IA plays a role in day-to-day design decisions, too. What we used to call "Little IA." What's a little IA problem you've faced recently?

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