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I’ve been a designer at 18F for one week now.
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I just attended my first Labor Notes Conference. My head’s full, and my heart’s on fire.
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On the work, and being endlessly clever.
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Spotted a copy of You Deserve a Tech Union at my local library. It made my decade.
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My book was reviewed in Labor Notes. I’m still pinching myself.
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I’m excited to share a change in You Deserve a Tech Union’s pricing.
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What happens when workers take collective action, and in an anti-worker industry?
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Tech workers of Boston! Curious about unions? We’re having another meetup about it!
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Tech workers of Boston! Curious about unions? Let’s have a meetup about it!
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Writin’ up—for you, but also for me—a few book events from last week.
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I went to a conference last weekend, and it was wonderful. In fact, I’m still thinking about it—and about what can happen next.
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So! You Deserve a Tech Union’s been getting a little attention lately! Here’s a short roundup.
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You Deserve a Tech Union’s launch feels like it was just yesterday! What is time anymore
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What else happened this week? Well, I wrote my first op-ed; also, I got some mail.
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Well, hey! Happy pub day to my latest book!
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Here’s the table of contents for You Deserve a Tech Union. (Also, hey: how about a sample chapter?)
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My new book, You Deserve a Tech Union, is almost here. Here’s how you can help support it!
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Life after Twitter remains, well, weird. Maybe this is better.
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Blurbs are starting to come in for You Deserve a Tech Union, along with several emotions.
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I wrote this book for you, for me—for all of us. I hope you like it.
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I’ve launched four courses on design systems, available for free at Aquent Gymnasium! I hope you like them.
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Sara Soueidan asked how I typically spend my days. Here’s how I typically spend my days.
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- time management
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Here’s how I think about my speaking fee for remote events.
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Karen and Jeff and I have launched a little strategic consultancy. We’re calling it Autogram, and I’d like to tell you why.
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- content strategy
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I’ve been lucky enough to work with Aquent Gymnasium on a series of short video tutorials. I hope you like them.
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- teaching
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I read these two essays some time ago, and I keep returning to them. I bet you’ll like them too.
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One turn deserves another.
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I just got home from attending—and speaking at!—last week’s New Adventures conference. It was an inspiring, marvelous day.
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I’m working with the team at Vox Media on their design systems. I’m very excited.
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How I work, and how I want to.
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I just flew in from Florida, where I’d spoken—and workshopped!—at the 2018 Front End Design Conference. And boy, are my arms tired/sunburnt.
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I come here not to praise 2017, but to bury it.
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- work
- year in review
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I’ve been thinking a lot about why I work the way I do, and how.
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Design is not neutral.
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A new design for Source, a non-profit that makes journalism code more visible.
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- publishing
- journalism
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Many of the free web themes I’ve seen recently are…slow. How can we fix that?
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- performance
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Welcome to my new website.
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- redesign
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I’ve written a new book! It’s about moving beyond the page, and designing with patterns. I hope you like it.
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When I’m asked to speak at an event, I ask a few useful questions. Maybe you’ll find them useful, too.
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There’s a second edition of my book! It’s still about responsive design, but quite a bit has changed.
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Karen McGrane and I have teamed up to offer in-house workshops on—you guessed it!—responsive design. Hire us!
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If you’re doing any public speaking, I have a few small (but useful!) tips.
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One of my favorite features in Apple’s Keynote is “Magic Move.” I bet it might be yours, too.
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I’ve cofounded a startup with some dear friends. It’s called Editorially. I’d like to tell you a little about it.
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- editorially
- mandy brown
- jason santa maria
- david yee
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The first large-scale responsive website just launched, and I helped. Here’s how we did it.
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Want to learn responsive design? There’s a book for that. (And I wrote it!)
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I’ve moved on from working at Happy Cog, and I’ve started up my own design practice again.
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- mandy brown
- greg storey
- ryan irelan
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Last Friday was my last day at a full-time job.
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- self-employment
- web design
- harvard
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Starting a new job.
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- web design
- harvard
- personal