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I sat down to write about design and AI and somehow ended up spending all morning tracking down a citation for how many airline pilots there...

I sat down to write about design and AI and somehow ended up spending all morning tracking down a citation for how many airline pilots there were in 1969.

fediverse friends: what is the best (simplest) way to cryptographically sign a web page? I’d love to include a signature on my blog posts...

fediverse friends: what is the best (simplest) way to cryptographically sign a web page? I’d love to include a signature on my blog posts that establishes provenance in an independently verifiable (public key?) way.

Huge respect for the team behind Wikipedia's latest design updates. I can't imagine how hard it is to confidently change a framework...

Huge respect for the team behind Wikipedia's latest design updates. I can't imagine how hard it is to confidently change a framework that has so many users, edge cases, and technical history.

Reading Donella Meadows’ “Thinking in Systems.” a. It’s a great book, please read it, and b. It’s reinforcing my belief that...

Reading Donella Meadows’ “Thinking in Systems.” a. It’s a great book, please read it, and b. It’s reinforcing my belief that optimism or pessimism can be a self-fulfilling prophecy.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/thinking-in-systems-international-bestseller-donella-meadows/8755142?ean=9781603580557

A new post! In which I do some math about micromanagement.https://matthewstrom.com/writing/the-micromanagers-dilemma/I shared some...

A new post! In which I do some math about micromanagement.

https://matthewstrom.com/writing/the-micromanagers-dilemma/

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Really love this breakdown of the process of designing airline route maps, especially the regional maps at the...

Really love this breakdown of the process of designing airline route maps, especially the regional maps at the end:

https://somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/2018/05/15/on-airline-mapping/

Writer friends: what's your favorite thesaurus? I'm looking for something like http://jsomers.net/blog/dictionary

Writer friends: what's your favorite thesaurus? I'm looking for something like http://jsomers.net/blog/dictionary

So happy to see all my old and new friends here. If you're just trying mastodon out and unsure if you'll stick around, you can also...

So happy to see all my old and new friends here. If you're just trying mastodon out and unsure if you'll stick around, you can also follow me here: https://matthewstrom.com/feed.xml

Sparked by the launch of https://www.notion.so/ai - With the proliferation of AI-written content, is there some way for a writer to...

Sparked by the launch of https://www.notion.so/ai - With the proliferation of AI-written content, is there some way for a writer to demonstrate (verifiably) that their work is not written by an AI? Like how a checksum works for authenticity. Or should AI writing always have a “marker” embedded in it?

Really neat idea with broad applicability to product design: sometimes, improving a metric means you're making things worse....

Really neat idea with broad applicability to product design: sometimes, improving a metric means you're making things worse.

https://sohl-dickstein.github.io/2022/11/06/strong-Goodhart.html