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Button Stealer

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Students create innovative concepts to welcome new residents with state&#8217;s population growth effort |  U-M Detroit

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Ron Bronson uses Record Club to track, rate, review and compile lists of their favorite music.

Ron Bronson's profile on Record Club

A bright and modern living room with large windows featuring roll-up shades. The room includes a flat-screen TV on a stand in the corner, a wooden chair with a beige cushion and a decorative pillow, and a tall potted plant with large, variegated leaves. A lamp stands next to the chair, and a framed certificate hangs on the wall. Sunlight streams into the room, highlighting the wooden flooring and colorful area rug.

this is neat https://anatolyzenkov.com/stolen-buttons/button-stealer

What is folks preferred party/event invite app/site of choice these days? I see lots floating around but can never remember their names.

I'm down for the Geocities-ization of Posts with the new Sites launch. Not sure how I'll use it, but dig the rollout

Any good frameworks / templates for peer feedback especially for designers?

my friend runs this AI exploration group in town that kinda blew up since people just wanna talk about that. As the resident critical designer/skeptic, they're doing some "science fair" style event Wednesday, trying to throw something together for it.

Shintaro Sakamoto - How To Live With A Phantom (2013)

My trainer's kitten showed up today to work out which I was very happy about.

It's always satisfying to see an opener you saw level up whether it's a bigger tour next time & seeing their music get more visibility.

I avoided composting for a long time because I had a friend (in Vermont, of course) who did and their house was always full of flies in the summer. Then I ran across someone who kept their small waste bin in the fridge and that made it seem more accessible.

Now that I'm done teaching and back home for real, doing all sorts of debating. Will I renew my lease? Should I move upstairs? Down the street? To another city entirely? Lots of debating.

Finally dropped my Spotify premium, the discovery on the other apps isn't as good. But I can still migrate my playlists.

Ordered a photo from the Oregon Historical Society, but they didn't tell me they were working on it they just like did it and then sent me an invoice randomly. Sort of hilarious, but appreciate the old school efficiency.

One of you internet folks put this book on my radar.

My problem with are.na right now is that I can aggregate stuff but it's harder to reference and go back. Kinda like bookmarks. I'd almost want a digest of stuff in there or easier findability.

Every year I coach I learn something new or change my approach in some way. We graduated a ton of players from last season. I've always been opposed to over-coaching, but this year I was adamant about my philosophy on getting kids to trust themselves on the court & it paid off.

Working on a revamp of my personal site, still a lazy jamstack situation because I don't want to overinvest in the design when the content is what matters to me. 

But debating whether I want to "brand" my personal practice in studio fashion or not. Less for marketing, for fun

Seems I should shuffle my liked songs more, because I like them?

Portland Design Month kicked off last night. Hopefully will be a rad few weeks of cool events across the city // pdxdesignmonth.com

I bought a modern cuckoo clock because I decided I wanted one and it took a few weeks but it showed up today. Can't wait for work to be done so I can go pick it up.

Had a really enjoyable semester teaching a design course at the University of Michigan.

https://detroit.umich.edu/news-stories/university-of-michigan-students-create-innovative-concepts-to-welcome-new-residents-to-michigan-with-states-population-growth-effort/

Not sure anyone here is using record.club but if so, https://record.club/ron

Apple Music discovery is so subpar relative to Spotify, makes it hard to switch. I try and I just end up listening to less music as a result.

Doing a pretty substantial spring cleaning of a bunch of old clothes I stopped wearing but I haven't gotten rid of. Thinking about embracing a more minimal personal uniform style of dressing. I like accessorizing, but I also think a capsule wardrobe would appeal to me

Teens of Denial (2016) from Car Seat Headrest holds up well. Revisited it tonight for one song & just played the whole album.

Promised myself if I worked out I could go out.

Flying is mostly awful these days but even amidst some Delta silliness yesterday, had a set of really nice human interactions that were so pleasant that it was almost jarring.

Designers being undervalued as strategists makes me think it's a framing problem.

Halfway through the semester teaching service design.

Finally solved my home internet problems without AI, though I guess once LLMs have hoovered up all of the user generated content on the internet I'll need to ask a bot for what reddit solved with a few pics.

For years, I never kept plants. Then during the lockdowns I ended up with a few smaller ones that despite my best efforts, I never managed to kill off. (Even bringing one back from the brink twice)

So when I moved recently, I graduated to two larger plants. We'll see how it goes

Portland doesn't have the same influx of new people moving in, so it's always been a tough city to connect but it's worse now. In another debating cycle of whether to bail or stick it out and change a bunch of stuff to make it better somehow.

This weather staying pretty warm makes it hard for me to pair my fall fragrances because I still wanna wear summer things

Rdio as an IG music only posting clone. Wouldn't get enough eyeballs to monetize for the ghouls, but would be a fun modality for sharing music. I just want IG stories for sharing music and nothing else.

Away from home for almost 8 weeks & the thing I missed most are the silly small things like having my speaker setup and all my books.

The last #xoxofest has been interesting to participate in. A post-internet internet conference nostalgic for what was lost, hopeful for what we can make next. I feel like there's a whole generation of folks who are doing the "next" thing that ought to get platformed

Jamming to old songs and I'm turning into an old person because I'm really noticing that all songs today are hooks with no buildup, no ballads. Just beats and hooks. I like a good beat and a good hook, but there's something nice about a song with a story arc.

Some books are references for talks you're gonna do years after you read them.

Had this talk written at least a week ago, but the reason it took me so long to do my slides? I wanted to buy a new typeface and couldn't decide which one.

Started composting and they naturally get rid of the compost bin down in the building's trash room. Figures.

Starting to understand people's nostalgia for the music of their childhood -- not even teen years -- but just stuff that I heard growing up. Dunno if it was the midwest stint or just something else, but old songs conjure a feeling of what's different (for me)

Need to add more podcast listening & not just subscribing to my daily listening habit

I wasn't sure how to honor the 20th anniversary of the sport I designed and let the anniversary lapse (save for buying the domain again) without much commemoration, but got some inspiration today and will use the anniversary to reboot my dormant newsletter.