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Closing Keynote at World IA Day Switzerland 2020
Writing
Richard Saul Wurman’s 5 Lives I’m working on the biography of Richard Saul Wurman, organized into two volumes: a mostly-chronological oral history, and a scholarly monograph. I’m making some of the more tantalizing and stand-alone bits from my research available … Continue reading
Abstract and Excerpt from Dutch Uncles, Ducks and Decorated Sheds
Please feel free to purchase the chapter I wrote for Reframing Information Architecture. I assure you I receive exactly zero dollars for each $40 PDF. Abstract: On what basis can and ought one assess the relative merits of a given … Continue reading
Now Available: Reframing Information Architecture Book
I just ordered a copy of Reframing Information Architecture, a new academic textbook style publication from Springer edited by Andrea Resmini. The book compiles work originally presented in a pre-conference workshop in Baltimore for the IA Summit. It features chapters written … Continue reading
Louis Kahn and Alan Watts On Wonder
@RonaldOnTheRoad… “@danklyn: quite possibly the most important human question, ever: how am I doing, wonder? pic.twitter.com/3ebrNG04” — Red Beard (@AhSinistrah) January 19, 2013 The highest to which man can attain is wonder; and if the prime phenomenon makes him … Continue reading
New Short Nonfiction: Landing Clean
Landing Clean is a new write-up of a story I’ve told a few times but never before thought to capture in any particular words.