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@guyschmidt
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I'm a UX & Content Strategist living in Maryland with an amazing partner, three great kids, and a really chill dog.
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On Additive and Extractive Technologies, “an extractive technology seeks to extract value from you instead of providing it.” Avoid.

Seer, “the built environment itself is, for all intents and purposes, becoming a gigantic archive, at all scales, forensically recording every event that occurs within it, with few or no options for opting out.” Also, BLDGBLOG is still alive.

Google Fonts organized by vibe, even if ... https://thingstoclick.com/2025/08/06/on-additive-and-extractive-technologies/

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On Additive and Extractive Technologies, “an extractive technology seeks to extract value from you instead of providing it.” Avoid. Seer, “the built environment itself is, for all intents and purposes, becoming a gigantic archive, at all scales, forensically recording every event that occurs within it, with few or no options for opting out.” Also, BLDGBLOG is still alive. Google Fonts organized by vibe, even if fonts aren’t your thing, visit to see all the little cursors flying around the Figma canvas.

Some things I liked this week: Photos of Baltimore at Night. BS 2000 a Beastie Boy adjacent project. Good advice from Chris Glass: Send the Card. The Amazing Art of the Video Game Marquee. Enjoying some epic late summer skies.

https://thingstoclick.com/2025/08/04/some-things-i-liked-this/

things

what I learned this morning is that most people are deeply conditioned by fear-based employment endemic in tech

it makes me think we have too few examples of work environments that prioritize deep focus, individual agency, async collaboration, no meetings

the collective acceptance that all work must be inside a panopticon is depressing

From Found Way, an amazing are.na collection of wayfinding, signs, etc. https://www.are.na/finnan-de-barra/found-way
Found Way | Are.na

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Are.na
Great sky last night.
Look: The art of Sebastian Foster https://sebastianfoster.com/
sebastianfoster.com | providing well curated original work and art prints

Look: The art of Kristin Moore https://www.kristinmooreart.com/
Kristin Moore

Kristin Moore is an artist living in Texas creating work exploring the landscapes of California, Texas, and beyond.

Kristin Moore
Watch: a summer without algorithms. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXSt06WYzzQ
a summer without algorithms.

YouTube
Read: The sound of inevitability: “These are some big names in the tech world, all framing the [AI] conversation in a very specific way. Rather than “is this the future you want?”, the question is instead “how will you adapt to this inevitable future?”. Note also the threatening tone present, a healthy psychological undercurrent encouraging you to go with the flow, because you’d otherwise be messing with scary powers way beyond your understanding.” https://tomrenner.com/posts/llm-inevitabilism/
The sound of inevitability

Have you ever argued with someone who is seriously good at debating? I have. It sucks. You’re constantly thrown off-balance, responding to a point you didn’t expect to. You find yourself defending the weak edges of your argument, while the main thrust gets left behind in the back-and-forth, and you end up losing momentum, confidence, and ultimately, the argument. One of my close friends won international debate competitions for fun while we were at university (he’s now a successful criminal barrister), and he told me that the only trick in the book, once you boil it all down, is to make sure the conversation is framed in your terms. Once that happens, it’s all over bar the shouting.

My place to put things
Sites I like: The HTML Review, Issue 04 https://thehtml.review/04/
the html review 04

the html review is an annual journal of literature made to exist on the web