My good friend Doug Russell¹ and his business partner Jeff Watkins started a terrific foundation that you should know about. Sound Off is working to increase the access marginalized people in tech have to professional opportunities.

Their goals are ambitious.

To start, the current

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Earlier this year, Jed Hurt and Jake Schumacher, the directors of the upcoming documentary App: The Human Story, released an impressive short of Neven Mrgan speaking about design. In the short, Neven compares skeuomorphism to a classic car. It's a beautiful analogy, brought to life

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I contributed an article about confidence¹ to quarterly 3 of Model View Culture. The print version is sold out, but digital copies of the quarterly are available for purchase here.

My article isn't the typical trite one that suggests marginalized people in engineering and

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This week, I'm headed to Logroño, Spain for NSSpain. I'll be presenting my "Humanities x Technology" talk on Thursday morning, which I'm really excited about. I got a chance to study abroad in Madrid in 2010, but I've never been to Logroño. I'm looking forward

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I recorded an episode of the Vector podcast with Rene Ritchie, Georgia Dow, Guy English, and Dave Wiskus. We discussed the newly formed Alphabet, Inc. and what that could mean for the future of Google, Apple's new diversity website, the NSA spying with lots of

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