information literacy
And I truly mean zero. I've done what I can to block AI scraping, build my own graphics, and write every word...often three or three dozen times. 😂 The information architecture is my own (better be, since I consider myself an information architect). I even do my best
information literacy
We're hitting a very scary point in information. We have to care about information. Not caring about information is tantamount to giving up – of saying that nothing matters enough about anything. Narrative is living for the next five minutes in the misguided confidence that you understand the world
movements
A habit of intentional design is the gravity point of building trust for what's new. Humanist design is the gravity point of real loyalty.
Current information technology hardware functions on a binary substrate of ones and zeros translated to electric gates (highly simplified!!), with lots of programming layers between that substrate and the code. That code controlling the hardware is something most of us don't understand. Over that, we're layering
Basic mechanics of information literacy explained: transparency, traceability, replicability, accountability.
Information technology — internet, genAI, software, all of it — is stuck. I’ve heard more people in the past month want to walk away from using what they consider irredeemably broken tools than I had the three years previously. The first time I heard it was from a developer, complaining around
humanizing information: literacy, social fractals, function/abstraction, and design concepts
We need to have both if we intend to have a democracy. Think about the economy like water: it flows and spreads to fill the nooks. The below breaks, percents, and distribution is per the 1Q 2025 FRED. The households number isn't provided in the FRED blog piece,
All our everyday things that would have seemed magical to someone 200 years ago came from understanding. Cars, phones, computers – they're all things we figured out. The information was around us, but we had to get the right mix involved before we could see our way to the
Information is complex. You already know that. I'm here to tell you, as someone who freaking loves information, that it's probably even more complex than you currently think. We have a tendency right now, on a social level, to makes things simplified (often binary), and try
This is one of those instances (like fully accessible design) that businesses have to let go of some things that they've prioritized and built entire machines around.
I spent weeks, probably hundreds of hours, researching names, trying to find different patterns and different taxonomies before finding W3C and Wikipedia examples like Akan names, Indian names, and African-American names.
Part of the 26 cultures researched, as noted in Names taxonomy.
So, we’ve acknowledged that the current construct is US-centric, and the US has patterns of cultural fuckuperry.
