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Confluence
Big update of many threads coming together: my upcoming Information Architecture Conference talk, a new chapter of The Nature of Software, and what's…
Dorian Taylor
Mar 21
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January 2023
Privacy by Design
Meditating on what it would take to design information systems that gave third parties only the information they needed to operate.
Dorian Taylor
Jan 29
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December 2022
Canada Gooped
In which our intrepid protagonist really steps in it.
Dorian Taylor
Dec 22, 2022
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November 2022
Muskus/Domesticus 🐀
Or: Who Moved My Cheese? Twitter Edition
Dorian Taylor
Nov 4, 2022
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September 2022
The Value of Time (and Information)
In which I consider some work that I did and what it would be worth in different contexts, as well as why I did it.
Dorian Taylor
Sep 29, 2022
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Trajectory
An update on what I've been up to this summer, plus an essay on the public's understanding of digital technology.
Dorian Taylor
Sep 18, 2022
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June 2022
Strictly (well, laxly) Business
This issue is work-centric, but I'll be back to bloviating soon enough. I am really excited about The Nature of Software though, and a couple other…
Dorian Taylor
Jun 24, 2022
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May 2022
The Specificity Gradient, and Other Things
A conceptual framework I coined last year shows up again, and apparently I am a YouTuber now. Also: a new, limited-run, subscriber-only newsletter: The…
Dorian Taylor
May 13, 2022
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April 2022
Forget Passwords!
This is a case study of how I solved a business-slash-UX problem that had been nagging at me for years, by ultimately rolling up my sleeves and writing…
Dorian Taylor
Apr 25, 2022
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Well, That Was Unexpected
Not so much a hot take, as a catalyzing event for disgorging a long-chewed rumination about what happens when Twitter irrevocably starts to suck.
Dorian Taylor
Apr 14, 2022
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A Very Special Episode
You know, I had been thinking I might be due for a clip show. With the recent spike in subscribers, let's have a recap to see what you've been missing.
Dorian Taylor
Apr 8, 2022
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March 2022
At Any Given Moment in a Process
…we have a certain partially evolved state of a structure. This state is described by the wholeness: the system of centers, and their relative nesting…
Dorian Taylor
Mar 24, 2022
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