: Focus and Start Tidying my archive earlier, I found a copy of an article I wrote – on the importance of focus – for …
: Trying to track down my original post – A Good Writer Is a Good Thinker – for The Pastry Box, I …
: Reading, Writing and Thinking Paul Graham on the importance of writing and the thinking that underpins it: … good writing is an …
: Download your Kindle books before they disappear… In case you missed it, on 26 February, Amazon is removing the ability to download books you’ve …
: Facsimile, Meet Fax Club If you’re not a subscriber to Do Books’ newsletter, do yourself a favour and sign up now. It’s …
: Indulge your inner mapping dictator with MapQuest’s Name Your Own Gulf tool. Tired of the Gulf of …
: It’s official (and hardly surprising), Humane’s Ai Pin is dead. Lasting less than a year, the …
: Start In 2020, I stopped posting articles and notes to the web and withdrew, almost entirely, from social …
: Hello, February! A huge thank you to my friend @adamprocter – a legend – for helping me dust down my …
: The ‘Start Page’, which I laboriously developed for Safari, has completely stopped working. Why, oh …
: Get Nir Eyal's library, free. Nir Eyal is running a promotion with Audible and giving away free copies of his books Hooked and …
: Diamond Seeds Sky Diamonds use a process of chemical vapour deposition to create carbon negative diamonds ‘grown …
: Untidiness If you’re following me (@adamprocter, I’m looking at you), I apologise in advance: My timeline is …
: The Pre-Aesthetic MVP The following was written for my second year #ixdbelfast students. Yesterday with my second year …
: Writing Yourself Into Existence, Part 5 These are notes from a conversation with one of my graduates (Caroline Smith, Head of Design, …
: Why we build. When I started teaching web design two decades ago, the problem we were trying to solve was: How do …
: The Real Unkindness Every year – around this time of year, when we arrive at the mid-semester reviews – I wrestle with …
: Books and Commodities It’s impossible for me to pop into Waterstones for a browse and leave empty-handed. Today’s …
: Extrapolating Success Late last night (or early this morning, take your pick), I posted a link to a short Canva …
: Connected Learning Earlier, whilst looking for the original sketches for the Tiny Books website, I found an old post – …
: Design isn’t comfortable… Design isn’t comfortable and business is difficult. Multiply design × business, as we are in The …
: Owning Your Audience One of the benefits of insomnia is all the extra time it affords you to read (and write). Unable to …
: 7,000,000,000 It’s my final semester at Belfast School of Art and I’m embarking on my final year module, Major …
: Making a space your own. The introduction of widgets in iOS 14 enables iPhone and, to a lesser extent, iPad users to …
: Nurturing Bonds I wrote the following in Issue 4 of The School of Design newsletter, when I was exploring the second …
: HTML → Markdown I’m currently batch-converting HTML pages to text formatted using Markdown for an archival project …
: Composing by Commentary It is a laborious madness and an impoverishing one, the madness of composing vast books… The better …
: Double Fold Ever since I purchased a copy of The Mezzanine, in 1990, and fell in love with Nicholson Baker’s …
: A Nuance Destruction Machine “Social media is ‘a nuance destruction machine’.” —Jeff Bezos [2’ 47”]
: Dead Mentors Over the last 48 hours I’ve enjoyed a fascinating conversation, on Twitter, with one of my graduates …
: Hello, World! Hello, World! This journal is largely a personal affair, maintained away from the cacophony of …