As of November 1, I was named Executive Creative Director at Automattic, where I’ll continue my work in Employer Brand while tackling the many layers of the emerging Automattic Operating System. More will be revealed.

Wasn't it nice to live a few years without the constant anxiety over what the President would do next?

I can’t stop laughing about him appointing TWO dudes to run the Department of Government Efficiency.

More true today than ever.

“This is my personal site. There are many like it, but this one is mine.” zeldman.com/2012/05/18/web… #design #bigtype #OldGold #WebDesignHistory #WebDesign #readability

Maybe it’s me, maybe I’m old fashioned, but if a bank teller were under an ethics investigation for having sex with minors, but then quit right before the boss could see the report, they probably wouldn’t hire the guy back and put him in charge of the entire fucking bank. Right?

To President Biden and all elected Democrats: Stop playing by rules that no longer exist. At this point, it's not just spinelessness, it's complicity.

Maybe it’s just me, but I’m pretty disappointed and frankly quite angry at how Democrats are literally just sitting by and letting an incoming dictatorship take over all for the sake of status quo and protecting the political norms that no longer exist.

An emerging metadata standard for AI has the potential to work as a guardrail. Not merely an architecture for describing AI output, MARTI offers a way of structuring policy and a possible foundation for a new literacy. zeldman.com/2024/11/19/und… #ai #metadata #ethics #standards

Happy #BlueBeanieDay !

How to Join Blue Beanie Day: Wear and Share! zeldman.com/2024/11/30/how… via zeldman #BlueBeanieDay

Persona Analysis: The Wise But Witty Designer-Dad with 92.5% authenticity! blueskyroast.com

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