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• No Year’s Resolutions

• Writing a Book About Notes

• Ted Lasso and Twitter

• Saying No

• TAOI is Dead; Long Live TAOI

• How I Take Notes

• How I Manage 'Thinking' Time

• My Personal Information Ecosystem

• Possibilities for Greatness

• Conformism ↔ Independent-mindedness

• The Siri

• Beginner’s Mind

• A (Very) Brief Message to the Class of 2020

• A Tune For These Times

• Facts Are Stubborn Things

• Reevaluating How We Use Social Networks

• Relief in Philosophy

• Real Mastery

• The Golden Age of Learning Anything

• Mind Your Manners Online

• Back Friday

• That Syncing Feeling

• John Cale on Victimhood

• Artificial Intransigence

• What I Unlearned From Architecture

• Apollo 11 at Fifty

• What Did I Learn?

• Striving for Simplicity

• Mind Your Baobabs

• Learning From Books

• How I Go Offline

• Work Anywhere

• My Digital Memory

• Getting Unstuck By Switching Environments

• The Role of Paper in Learning

• Designing Your Life

• Making a List

• Five Practices for Using Information More Mindfully

• The Top Posts on jarango.com in 2018

• Uses for YouTube

• Intentional Computing

• Folder-centric to App-centric Workflows

• New Keynote: “Designing Distinctions”

• Five Books I Enjoyed in 2018

• Making Changes at the End of the Year?

• Seeing Clearly

• A Stowable TV

• Is It Time To Leave Facebook?

• So Many Books

• Maintaining Focus

• The Tricorder on Your Wrist

• Working Towards Focus

• Your Personal Information Ecosystem

• Falling In Love (Again) With Your Work

• Optimism

• Switching Modalities

• Amusing Contradictions

• Screens, Screens Everywhere

• Changing Your Personal Information Environment

• A Personal Information Architecture

• "Living in Information" Now Shipping

• A Return to Email Newsletters

• On Notices of Privacy Policy Updates

• Living in Information Now Available to Pre-order!

• Exploring the Possible

• What’s Your Story?

• Give Priority to Old Sources

• Craft and Philosophy

• Teaching IA in Chicago

• Two Phase Transitions

• Extraordinary Evidence

• Staying Relevant as a Digital Designer

• Fielding Ambiguity

• What If This Were Easy?

• How to Clear a Logjam

• Reports of My Death

• What Are You In Service To?

• Seeing Clearly

• Responding to Undetectable Signals in the Environment

• Exercising Patience

• When Algorithms Know

• The Right Time for Feedback

• When Algorithms Don’t Know

• The More You Can Escape, the Worse Things Get

• The Call

• The End

• Taking Notes

• Honoring Intuition

• A New Adventure: Teaching Systems at CCA

• Reestablishing Routines After a Break

• Leaping the Inventory Wall

• A Thought on Christmas Morning

• What's My iPhone For?

• The Power of Constraints

• Making Time for Noodling

• Turmoil and Wonder

• The Measures of a Man

• The Instrument

• A New Notebook

• Listening to Women

• Less

• Focus

• Pretended Order

• Sweet Spot

• Acting Skillfully

• The Map, the Territory, and the Fitness Tracker

• ​Double Dragon

• Of Molders and Dancers

• Squirrel!

• Joining Futuredraft

• Stateside

• Who is Jorge Arango's Hero?

• Sad for Venezuela

• Goodbye CNN