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A reminder that management is not leadership. Tips for better IC relations: 1) Keep manager's meetings to manager's topics: operations, staffing, logistics, etc. 2) Create spaces for leadership conversations (i.e. vision) and invite relevant senior IC's.

You should sign up for Critical UX: My generation was taught that a career in UX would change the world for the better. It’s as if talking about users gives you some sort of ethical auto pilot. It’s a harmful lie that I repeated, and I’m sorry.

Unless you are working on content that is getting carved into a monument or put on a plaque being sent into space for future civilizations to find, you have my permission to relax.

Are we really going to have to say MAANG

Designers should be reading HBR. They've been doing a lot of useful stuff lately, and it's pretty well designed.

Not a single adtech executive has reached out to congratulate us on our new venture, and that should tell you everything you need to know.

Who will build the world your customer journeys take place in? Who is intentionally concerned with the design and stewardship of that world? That work, to me, is content work.

Once in a while, an opportunity comes along that is so interesting I simply cannot say no…

I published the transcript of my talk, The State Of The Web: Here’s the video: And here are the slides:

I published the transcript of my talk, The State Of The Web: Here’s the video: And here are the slides:

I published the transcript of my talk, The State Of The Web: Here’s the video: And here are the slides:

I published the transcript of my talk, The State Of The Web: Here’s the video: And here are the slides:

If you’re looking for a *very* good primer on contemporary @RWD techniques, that @adactio wrote a downright EXCELLENT one. Strongly recommended:

Hats off to McKinsey. It's one of the most insightful posts of 2011 predicting future trends in that year -

Please give this a try, and share your new cool non-Mercator maps with us! It's an initial release which may have a few rough edges, so don't hesitate to report issues. Hopefully non-Mercator maps will get more popular on the Web now. 😊 More about v2.6:

@jonathontoon As a companion to the org chart, I hope you have a career progression framework showing how an employee can advance through either a managerial track or an individual contributor track. Look at what CharlieHR did:

@smdiehl For any engineer who hasn't realized this fact yet: I encourage you to check out ostensibly *technical* guides about web3 applications. Get it directly from the source! It's all empty technobabble that glosses over intractable technical issues.

Business consultants and bookkeepers, the Deloittes, Accentures, and the McKinseys are ready to drop in and “hit the ground running”. Like they dropped in and hit the ground running selling design a couple of years ago. A couple of years back, banks, consultants and bookkeeping companies, bought a couple of agencies, and now they broadly claim they’re devs and designers. Bookkeepers are specialists in UX, IOT, VR, and blockchain. It’s bizarre. They have hired excellent designers. But you can’t buy design culture. Their culture still pushes expensive pseudo-objective pyramids and piecharts in dressed up PowerPoint presentations that claim to know the future.

Reduce Your Website’s Environmental Impact With a Carbon Budget by @MicheBarks

Eaton is super correct with this take and you should buy @redsesame's book immediately

it is @redsesame's Everyday Information Architecture and it is an absolute banger.

Apparently the podcast where @katerutter and I drink and yell at each other about UX has over 500k downloads. If you're a listener, thank you! And also, I'm sorry?

“Simpler models seemed to fare better on the corrected data than the more complicated models that are used by tech giants like Google for image recognition and assumed to be the best in the field. So we may have an inflated sense of” Big AI’s efficacy.

“Just take a minute to consider the implications of that: any third-party script on your site is allowing someone else to execute code on your web pages. That’s astonishingly unsafe.” — Jeremy Keith @adactio in

The possibility of Automatic Updates in #Drupal core is getting real! Just tagged the Alpha2 of contrib module that is being developed for core inclusion It supports Drupal core patch level Composer-based updates & is ready for testing! Give it try!

"WCAG 3 and the consensus process will probably mean that it takes another 3–5 years until WCAG 3 sees any release. [..] Let's just make sure we don't get ahead of ourselves and create confusion." — ⁦@yatil⁩ #wcag #a11y

A good diagnosis of the issue at hand and the underlying opportunities that are available

Wilco and tea.

1/10 We have today published the second edition of our AI Barometer, which is an analysis of the opportunities and challenges associated with AI and data use, alongside the findings of a major survey of British businesses. Find out more here:

“Maker of Rapid Covid Tests Told Factory to Destroy Inventory” …. A story from this summer via ⁦@nytimes⁩

Typically, attempts to collapse down political preferences into a few dimensions focus on two primary dimensions: "authoritarian vs libertarian" and "left vs right". You've probably seen political compasses like this:

Intuitively, anecdotally, and scientifically, PowerPoint may be the worst business tool ever created.