Sifting through the mess At first, reading all these posts about ChatGPT squeezed the panic glands in my brain. Should I pack it up and find another career? Is this singularity, and will the robot police be showing up at my door soon? But after I calmed down a bit, I said to myself…

A case for reframing “wrong”. — The review was not fun. It was a project I labored over for months, and I was not thrilled as I watched fellow designers unravel my work. A lot of feedback they gave focused on the first sentence millions of users would see. The designers insisted it didn’t fit the…

A brief trip through the hellscape of AI holiday photos. Part 1: AI is awesome. I’m sure at some point, it will all come for our jobs, and eventually, us. Singularity will be the destruction (or salvation) of us all. But right now? Not so much: #1 Fig.1 I have so many…

I sat in bed while my wife helped my 5-year-old use the portable cassette toilet in our newly renovated shuttle bus. We had stopped in Albuquerque at a relative’s house after long-hauling from Chicago. When my son was finished, my wife reached out for the handle to flush. “Maybe you…

The Problem The user works in graphic design. While critiquing a design in a mobile app, their phone abruptly turns off. When they restart the phone, they reopen the app. The Solution I needed to write a message that the user will read upon reopening the app. I started with the basics. …

In the summer of 1998, I landed a job with Sony Signatures, the now-defunct wing of the Sony Corporation that managed the merchandise on…

McSweeneys.net keeps a running tally on Trump’s transgressions called Lest We Forget the Horrors: A Catalogue of Trump’s Worst Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions and Crimes. At press time, there are 842 entries, compiled as recent as July 31, 2020. …