Umyazu
Reading is the art of attention.
Reading is the art of attention.
It is right that the murder of many people be mourned and lamented.
Even the best weapon is an unhappy tool.
Five principles for embracing uncertainty.
Walk the road your dream goes.
Playing in the dirt.
What do they do, the singers, tale-writers, dancers, painters, shapers, makers?
Drive your feelings home.
Talk is power.
Where to give all your precious fucks.
What if it’s we who are late?
Happy birthday, A Working Library.
Thinking about altruism with Le Guin.
Interrogating the story behind “artificial intelligence.”
On the time for rest.
Let’s engage with office culture as it really is, not how we imagine it used to be.
Coaching for change.
On holding space for ambiguity.
To whom are we actually responsible?
No office without politics, no politics without unions.
Maybe we’re not burned out but burned up.
Every argument about how we work is an argument about power.
Rereading like your life depends on it.
What thoughts are you thinking with?
Lessons on leading a remote team when the world’s on fire.
On the boredom and misogyny of gendered bots.
Hyperlinks are great, actually.
The de-industrialized workplace.
On being a woman in tech.
Changing the story, together.
Remote is here to stay.
Publishing the hard way.
Thoughts on GitHub, discrimination, and language.
The origins of “meritocracy.”
A responsive redesign.
The tragic mode versus the comic mode.
Introducing Editorially
Publishing is the beginning, not the end.
Why editors need to know HTML.
Publishing as representation.
From Issue No. 1 of Contents Magazine.
The fourth book from A Book Apart.
How we read is breaking ranks with how the news is made.
My thoughts on the new Readability.
On building a publishing house, and loving great content.
Of blogs and books
On the length of forever, and our role as caretakers.
On the release of A Book Apart’s second title.
More on the new publishing.
On Dieter Rams, and how long is long enough.
A new publishing venture.
Of books and pens
A call for book designers to migrate to the screen.
Three announcements about the future of publishing.
Things I’ve learned about the act of reading.
What work means.
How the name of a thing can guide you towards its use.
Reading distractedly has its merits.
Not the book but the library.
We read to understand.
Let’s stop pretending.
From issue 278 of A List Apart.
How to read voraciously.
How the name of a text prefigures its form.
To remember is to forget.
A text makes a statement as to how it should be read.
Reading long on the web.
Can the conversation around a book replace the act of reading it?
It is impossible to write an effective first post on a blog.