Listening
All the joy you'd expect
From French house and a tiny puppet DJ
Latest
Notes and links - 15th March 2026
Nobody Gets Promoted for SimplicityWe reward complexity and ignore simplicity. In interviews, design reviews, and promotions. Here’s how to fix it.Terrible SoftwarePut the ZIP code first.It’s 2026. A ZIP code is 5 characters. From those 5 characters you get city, state, and country. 3 fields. Autofilled.
Design
All hail the chartosaur
This account is full of good advice https://www.tiktok.com/@chartosaur/photo/7615644022094171405
Communicating
Communicating energy
I've been interested in how we communicate about energy for ages. For a while it was my job. And (as I often do) I started scouring ebay for related things, which means I've ended up with a little collection of energy saving posters. Alex once asked
Diary
How green was my Eliot?
"The strangeness of these instructions was compounded by the fact that the Sitwells noticed, while dining with him, that he was wearing face powder, “pale but distinctly green, the colour of forced lily-of-the-valley.” Their observation confirmed what Virginia Woolf thought she had seen— green powder on his face. The
Heatherwick out
BT Tower hotel development news. Heatherwick is out. Orms are in.
Careers
Mike Birbiglia on making it small in Hollywood
@iamrichroll Do what you love, not what you like. Episode 912 with @Mike Birbiglia. Streaming now. ✌🏼🌱 – Rich ♬ original sound - Rich Roll
Deeply detailed
Podcasts/YouTube has enabled a particular favourite format of mine; the deeply nerdy, in-depth, rich, no-apparent-time-limit interview. This is a brilliant example: I think one of the reasons it works is that it's not lazy and rambling. It's very well researched. Thorough, thoughtful, rigorous.
Notes and links - 8th March
This Is How the Every Editorial Team Uses AIWe’re publishing our editorial guidelines, plus the workflows our writers, editors, and producers have built around themEveryKate LeeThe Death of Spotify: Why Streaming is Minutes Away From Being ObsoleteJimmy Iovine just called the Death of Spotify. He might be right.The
Jonathan Shearman on going to find out
@uncommongroundpod In the investment world, we’ve normalised 45-minute meetings as enough to make million-pound decisions. But Jonathan Shearman challenges that idea head-on. In this Uncommon Ground moment, he recalls walking into a “factory” in China that turned out to be an empty shed, just two weeks after the leadership
Account Planning School of the Web
Meanwhile on LinkedIn
So you don't have to go there "I've been angsting about what to do about the Account Planning School of the Web. I only got one entry last month (more of which anon) which suggest a lack of product/market fit. Maybe 'how to
Get yourself to Papercamp
Papercamp 5 is coming in September. The line-up looks brilliant. Get yourself a ticket. Papercamp 5 – designswarmdesignswarm