Bogdan Stanciu

Maybe the rich are getting richer because they stopped giving us bread, but gave us the tools where we make our own circus.

In addition to the below article, I will once again recommend Producing Politics. www.beacon.org/Producing-Po... As a (very different type of) consultant, I hate hate hate the campaign consultant class.

“US households are paying 62% more for drinking water than they did a decade ago — outpacing inflation, grocery prices and household incomes.” [theguardian.com]

What are you even doing with your life if you come down on the wrong side of The Lorax?

The Musk empire turducken is about to reach its final form as Elon makes his biggest play yet to stuff his struggling companies into his more successful ones.

Now, this is something Tolkien would have something to say about. What the fuck are we doing here? I'll summarize books and academic papers for you and answer your relationship questions, no clearcutting required. Make them plant a million new trees. Two million.

Every kid he makes.

You can’t win? Invent your own market.

I once saw Malcolm Gladwell very awkwardly riding a bike the wrong way down a one-way street in Greenwich Village, and with no helmet. That is all.

Another half an hour of my life wasted working through the problem > support website > irrelevant "FAQs" > dumbass chatbot > fill-in-form-and-get-a-ticket-number pipeline.

A baby girl was killed in her stroller today by a Russian drone strike in Nova Vodolaha, Kharkiv Region. Her name was Anhelina. Her mother died as well. ​An absolutely barbaric strike on a park full of families with children. ​6 people have been confirmed killed so far, including other children.

Does Tommy even know what the Muslim Brotherhood is or where they operate?

Paul Grice came up with the Cooperative Principle. Robin Lakoff added the Politeness Principle. I think we need to add care. The degree to which everyone in a conversation expresses authentic care changes an interaction, and the appropriate way to do it depends on roles/relationship.

I'm happy to announce that I'll be joining the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX to train, so in about two years I can withstand the physical challenges of driving a Roadster 2 through the air. Can anyone recommend a good helmet?

Depeche Mode songs as User Experience Design methods bog-dan.medium.com/depeche-mode...

i think i need to like, set aside an entire day a week to just read stuff

A man dug a tiny waterhole in the Brazilian rainforest, then set up a camera to see who would show up for a drink

Did anyone try socialbrief.ai? wdyt?

Eileen Blair, from South Shields, UK, was believed to have had a large influence on her husband George Orwell's writing. 'Nineteen Eighty-Four's title and idea is thought to be inspired by one of her poems - 'End of the Century, 1984' #womensart

If I start a handkerchief brand, can I get Slavoj Žižek to endorse it?

"Be wrong sometimes. It's less lonely" - Bonjour Tristesse (2024)

If you missed Shift UX in Brooklyn this year, there's a summary available here tinyurl.com/4tzpwt2c

Was their answer "Pay us more money"?

that’s why we’re on Bluesky - the Website for Moderately Pretentious People!

This admin has spent years going after science. It proposed the largest cut in NASA’s history, about a quarter of the agency and half of its science programs. But last month, a groundbreaking telescope left the launch pad anyway. And the story of how it got there is our good news this Sunday.

Outcomes take “hours”, too, and we don’t know how many. We also don’t know if anyone is willing to pay a percentage of the outcome, and how that will be calculated.

You have two choices: run away alone or team up with your people. Some might have to run for a while to find their people.

I would simply like fewer movies about the worst people and more movies about the best people.

Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”

New Law Would Ban Marriages Between People Who Don't Love Each Other

I feel you, Daniel L

Is the owner of this shop French or Balkan? (pic via @caumike)

WTF?! 😶 www.npr.org/2026/09/18/n...

wow! That's a big, dangerous number. We'll see the fracture in real time.

I think we are moving from human-centered design to human-justified design.

Great talks by Caitlin Steele and Anne Cantera in the first day of @chicagocamps.bsky.social Leadership by Design.

Valuable technology shouldn't make people feel happy that they still have a job, when the job is digging their own grave. Valuable technology should free time or add other forms of value, not keep people more stressed and busier.

Omnimodal is to omnichannel what multimodal is to multichannel. There, I said it.

Design talks titles 2000-2026: "What [everything], except design, teaches us about design."

I'm starting to jot down thoughts about Shift UX conference next week bog-dan.medium.com/2026-shift-u...

Amodei, Altman, and Musk are worried that after their LLMs will reach PhD-levels of intelligence, the very same models will end up unemployed.

Repeat after me: UX is not an "industry". UX people work in other industries.

Reverse-missionary.

Kind of funny that the DMI: Design Leadership Conference www.dmi.org/page/DLC26 And Shift UX shiftux.rosenfeldmedia.com happen at the same time.

Not enough of you are hogtying your bad bosses and it shows.