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• The GREW Model

• Why I'm Excited About Generative AI

• Two Types of Personal Journals

• Shaping the Future of Design

• Using the Iceberg Model to Understand Complex Situations

• The Informed Life with Karl Voit

• Thinking With Words

• Principles for Selecting PKM Apps

• Evergreen Notes

• Second Draft = Second Wind

• The Hair Metal Disclaimer

• The Informed Life with Bram Wessel and Gary Carlson

• TAOI: Metaphor Search

• The Informed Life Episode 100

• TAOI: macOS System Settings

• Five Types of Links

• Notes Are for More than Remembering

• The Informed Life with Rob Ashton

• The Informed Life with Howard Rheingold

• Book Notes: “The Dream Machine”

• Automating Jekyll Builds and Deploys

• Book Notes: “Figure It Out”

• One Idea, One Note

• Why Do You Take Notes?

• How to Pick a Note-taking App

• Automate Mindfully

• Room to Think

• Things I Was Wrong About: 280 Characters

• Re-evaluating the Move to Jekyll

• The Informed Life with Boon Yew Chew

• Revisiting IA's Past

• Two Ways of Organizing Notes

• The Most Logical Date Format for Notes

• Automating File/Folder Structures

• Why Metadata Matters

• The Informed Life with Patrick Tanguay

• Develop Mastery by Revisiting the Basics

• Book Notes: “Tools for Thought”

• Why I Moved My Site to Jekyll

• My Videoconferencing Setup, October 2021

• The Waning File/Folder Mental Model

• An Idea from Computer Science That Can Change Your Life

• TAOI: Hair Texture Filters

• Why You're Having Trouble with That Twitter Redesign

• TAOI: Facebook Mobile Settings

• TAOI: New Apple Store Page

• Book Notes: “The Alignment Problem”

• Working on the iPad

• Back to the Bad Old Days of the Web

• Celebratory Settings

• Becoming Better Users of Online Information

• Abstraction and Implementation

• Dark IA?

• How to Use Social Media Without Losing Equanimity

• Stripping in Information

• How I Take Notes

• The Key to Understanding Why Things Happen

• Flexibility vs. Ease-of-use

• The Informed Life with Matt LeMay

• Challenges in Designing for Emerging Technologies

• Not Just a New Feature; a New Compact

• Ten Years

• Worth Your Attention

• Book Notes: “The Revolt of the Public”

• The Informed Life with Kourosh Dini

• Worth Your Attention

• TAOI: Privacy and Metadata

• Privacy and Metadata

• Worth Your Attention

• The Assault on U.S. Democracy

• Worth Your Attention

• The Informed Life with Brian Breslin

• Worth Your Attention

• The Informed Life with Phillip Hunter

• Digital Dependency

• Worth Your Attention

• The Siri

• Worth Your Attention

• The Informed Life With Alexis Lloyd

• The Informed Life With Rob Haisfield

• Re-thinking Digital Note-taking

• Startups and the Big Picture

• Worth Your Attention

• Software and Dematerialization

• TAOI: Gmail's New Conceptual Model

• Worth Your Attention

• Tour of an F-15 Jet Fighter User Interface

• The Shortcomings of Online Events

• Worth Your Attention

• The Informed Life With Louis Rosenfeld

• Worth Your Attention

• Five Lessons From the Pandemic

• Worth Your Attention

• Worth Your Attention

• A New Normal

• Nostalgia for the Future

• Reevaluating How We Use Social Networks

• The Informed Life With Aynne Valencia

• Worth Your Attention

• The Informed Life With Nicholas Paul Brysiewicz

• The Quality of Impromptu Online Work

• Legislating the Structure of Information Environments

• Coronavirus and Remote Collaboration

• Worth Your Attention

• Outlook Spaces

• Apple’s Services Pivot and Persuasion

• Worth Your Attention

• Worth Your Attention

• A Year of Podcasting: Recording Gear

• Early 20th Century Car Navigation Systems

• Worth Your Attention

• Worth Your Attention

• The Golden Age of Learning Anything

• The Informed Life With Mary Parks

• Worth Your Attention

• You Are Being Tracked

• Worth Your Attention

• Back Friday

• That Syncing Feeling

• Tending Your Industry's Ecosystem

• Book Notes: "The Everything Store"

• Hiding Incompatible Apps in the Microsoft Store

• The Perfect Framing for an Information Architecture Challenge

• TAOI: Incompatible Apps in the Microsoft Store

• Being Open to Unsettling Changes

• Worth Your Attention

• Quantum Supremacy

• TAOI: Facebook’s Electoral Interference Changes

• Perspective on “Digital”

• TAOI: Facebook Hiding Likes

• The Informed Life With Eduardo Ortiz

• Are Dating Apps Making Marriages Stronger?

• TAOI: Personalized Yelp Results

• Table Stakes

• The Informed Life With Jeff Sussna

• Striving for Simplicity

• Drive-by Redesigns

• The Treachery of Deepfakes

• Learning From Books

• TAOI: Podcasts on Spotify

• Getting Rid of Ghosting in Notebook Scans

• TAOI: OmniFocus Tags

• Hardware Notes: AirPods

• Good IA is Good Business

• TAOI: YouTube Subscriber Counts

• TAOI: IDAGIO

• Proudshamed

• “Build More Roads” is Often the Wrong Answer

• The Informed Life With Trip O’Dell

• A Brush With Resilience

• My Digital Memory

• A Change of Mindset

• Which Watch to Wear to the Apocalypse

• Back to the Browser Monoculture?

• From the Digital Town Square to the Living Room

• Book Notes: “Digital Minimalism”

• Stephen Wolfram’s Personal Information Ecosystem

• The iPad As a Travel Computer

• Getting More Done With Information

• A Data Primer for Designers

• How to Subscribe to a Podcast by URL

• TAOI: Adding More Context to Tweets

• The Space That Symbolizes the Information Age

• Trusting a Software Ecosystem

• An Economy of Deception

• A Community In Search of a Home

• Facebook’s Reverse Halo

• Uses for YouTube

• Cybernetics and Planned Economies

• Intentional Computing

• Wikipedia as Information Infrastructure

• The Eponymous Laws of Tech

• TAOI: Facebook Watch Party

• Digital Nutrition

• Kranzberg’s Laws of Technology

• Tracking Commitments

• A Stowable TV

• The Next Twenty Years

• A Principle for Self-organizing Systems?

• Project Focus Mode

• A Bit of Structure Goes a Long Way

• Developing a Mental Model of a System

• The Possible and the Practical

• The Allure of Novelty

• Something Real To Do

• Does USB-C Turn iPad Pros Into "Real" Computers?

• Mobile Computing at a Different Level

• Innovation and the Test of Time

• OneNote

• Book Notes: “Make It New”

• Tag Your Stuff

• TAOI: Reverse-chronological Feed in Twitter

• Maintaining Focus

• The Tricorder on Your Wrist

• Book Notes: “Architectural Intelligence”

• Book Notes: “Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now”

• The Purpose of Computers

• Controlling Screen Time

• If These Walls Had Ears

• There's No Such Thing as Too Much Information

• Designing for “Smart” Agents Among Us

• Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free

• What a Medium Is

• Why Doesn’t the New York Times Have a Digital Design Critic?

• What is an Information Environment?

• Extraordinary Evidence

• TAOI: Twitter Bookmarks

• Reports of My Death

• When Algorithms Know

• When Algorithms Don’t Know

• The Stream

• Taking Notes

• The Dream of a Single Inbox

• Inside and Outside a System

• Invisible Technologies

• Silver (Air)linings

• Leaping the Inventory Wall

• My Favorite Reads of 2017

• Book Notes: "Dawn of the New Everything"

• What's My iPhone For?

• Cybernetic Systems in the Designer's Palette

• TAOI: Twitter Threads

• The Power of Constraints

• Self-image Ideals

• Third Places

• Through the Looking-Glass

• The Measures of a Man

• Book Notes: "A Mind at Play"

• TAOI: Windows 10 Tab Sets

• Towards a More Resilient Internet

• TAOI: A Taxonomy of Trust

• Talking With the Information Machines

• Metaphors Matter

• TAOI: RideMax

• Our Own Private Idahos

• TAOI: Apple Health

• TAOI: Picadilly Lights

• TAOI: WikipediaVision

• TAOI: Koya Bound

• The Map, the Territory, and the Fitness Tracker

• “Product” is the Wrong Framing

• TAOI: Android Oreo Notifications

• A Tale of Two Computers

• ​Double Dragon

• Leaving Your Mark

• Dejando Huellas

• The Smart Sketchbook Revisited

• Dangerous Simulations?

• … For Everybody

• Squirrel!

• A Unicycle for the Mind

• The Smart Sketchbook

• … For the World Wide Web

• Cómo Construir Esquemas de Navegación por Facetas en Drupal

• Getting a Sony Reader

• The New iPods: A Further Blurring of Physical and Online Spaces

• Deep Context

• Goodbye CNN

• The iPhone

• Thoughts on the Office 12 UI