Quitting the Paint Factory by Mark Slouka

What’s the Point If We Can’t Have Fun?

My friend June Thunderstorm and I once spent a half an hour sitting in a meadow by a mountain lake, watching an inchworm dangle from the top of a stalk of grass…

Paul Ford: What Is Code? | Bloomberg

The world belongs to people who code. Those who don’t understand will be left behind.

The Future Of Knowledge Workers In An AI-Driven World

Work has never been able to provide people with the kind of value that a vocation, spiritual belief system or community once did. But AI might change that.

Remembering the pre-Google web, when search was an experiment - Ars Technica

Most people have completely forgotten how chaotic it really was."

BYOC Anywhere: The Spectrum of Bring Your Own Cloud Deployments

Delivering software directly to customer clouds solves data gravity, yet operating across diverse environments requires a robust product architecture.

Dress made of living mycelium can renew and repair itself

Researchers in China have created a textile from living mycelium that is self-cleaning, near self-repairing and can be coloured or made UV protective through "plug-and-play" add-ons of different fungi or yeast.

Cognitive Endurance: Reclaiming Our Agency in the Age of AI

AI can generate ideas, but cognitive endurance is what helps us think. Nine principles for protecting curiosity, judgment, and original thinking in the AI era.

AI Prompts for UX Research: 23 Copy-Paste Prompts

23 tested AI prompts for UX research - planning, recruiting, analysis, synthesis, and stakeholder communication. Copy, paste, customize, use.

Fire Weather: On why tech’s worst-rated managers are not the problem

This week, more than 330,000 people have been driven from their homes by wildfires burning across France and Spain. France has already recorded more than three times its annual number of fires, and its soil moisture is the lowest ever measured this early in the summer. Near Bordeaux, crews are cutting giant firebreaks to keep the flames away from the city. They cannot control the heatwave or the drought that set the conditions, but they can decide where to draw the line and defend it. I am hear