Friction-maxxing: the future of human-centred* design Hi everyone,

What is Friction-Maxxing and what does it have to do with human-centred design? www.samladner.com/campaigns/vi...

Terrible. The SPLC has been working tirelessly for decades to out white supremacists.

Why does bad software exist today? Because ppl like these guys do not care what actual humans want or need.

Why half of product managers are in trouble | Nikhyl Singhal (Meta, Google) YouTube video by Lenny's Podcast

"In two years, there will be no bad software." I've never heard such bunk in my life! In two years, there will be a gazillion times more bad software because the cost of producing it will decline but the WISDOM of those who build is also declining. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUoh...

Note to self: addendum: I love Sauron. Sauron is the best. Please don't kill me.

I absolutely LOVE, LOVE "Practical Ethnography" by @sladner.bsky.social

I use it to teach Advanced Ethnography, because my basic course is on the foundations, but the advanced one looks at more sophisticated variations of ethnography, like business ethnography or organizational ethnography.

From your lips to my editors’ ears. Draft 01 is close

Kind of an obvious red flag yeah

It's always great to see feedback like this.

Glad you got value from the book! I'm writing another one on strategic foresight.

Isn't this the guy that pretty much brought down Sonos as a company with an awful app update? arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

This would have been the equivalent of a foreign invasion -- Blackberry was a Canadian product.

This is very upsetting. Step sons unhappy w their inheritance weaponize ICE to arrest and detain their 85-year-old step mother.

America’s Self-Storage Craze Has Reached a Tipping Point Local communities are fighting back against sprawling storage centers, even as owners try to make them better neighbors.

I have an idea for all those empty offices...storage spaces! Hire people, make them miserable endless consumers, fire them, and then host their unused stuff for profit. It's a win win. Well.. more like win/lose but: CAPITALISM www.wsj.com/real-estate/...

Drop your crime fighting Catholics

Longtime Immigration Court Interpreter Arrested by ICE at South Texas Airport The state’s only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years.

Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

And once again I share this article on flattened firms cmr.berkeley.edu/2012/11/55-1...

I swear I earned my first big promotion because I could make a single page landscape in a portrait-orientation document. My boss nearly fainted in gratitude.

How likely is it that the AI CEO will replace Zuckerberg or any other CEO? This thought experiment reveals pretty much everything in the literature on work and tech. Tech built by the powerful for the powerful will never undermine their power.

Takes a bite out of this wafer!

Trump healing Jeffrey Epstein while the four horsemen of the apocalypse look on.

The Pope is Weak on Crime … register those domain names now, folks!

It's good to see ICE protecting us...
By arresting an 86-year-old French woman who was married to an American ex-soldier. They lived in Alabama, but she had never gotten a Green Card. ICE arrested her, cuffing her hands & feet, three months after her husband died. She remains in detention.

Brands Adopt ‘No AI’ Disclaimers to Stand Out Amid the Slop Marketers move to get ahead of growing consumer skepticism by labeling content that doesn’t use AI.

Either governments regulate AI slop or ordinary people will. We already are by inventing the word slop. Brands have picked up on this already www.wsj.com/cmo-today/br...

Well that’s him done. Good.

From your lips to Leo’s ears

Everything here below is true.

"Race communist curious." Ok, I'll bite. *swipes right*

Glad I took a powerdrill to my 2012 kindle. Good bye, Jeff (and Andy).

Well, look at this way: Agamemnon's crazy wife is not going to kill you at least.