Hey, everyone! “Design for Real Life” is now available online, in full, for free, at

Design for Real Life

Design for Real Life

. It’s all the same content Sara Wachter-Boettcher and I wrote in 2016, but now it’s free for everyone. (If you’d like your own paper or electronic copy, there’s a “Bug the book” page on the site.) Read, share, spread the word—thanks!

Can’t be too careful, I guess #wordpress

So… O’Reilly sent me email today hyping up how my books (really, just the one, I assume) is going to be AI-translated into Spanish and German, with other languages to follow. This was probably inevitable, but I still have concerns. First: are there no human translators of these languages? Second: who’s going to proof-read all 1,126 pages to make sure nothing got botched, especially given the technical nature of the content? The readers? Which isn’t even crowd-sourcing: it’s customer-sourcing.

“If you or someone you know chose not to evacuate, PLEASE write your, Name, birthday and important information on your arm or leg in A PERMANENT MARKER so that you can be identified and family notified.” From a real post that’s up right now on a Florida Sheriff’s office Facebook page (I took the below screenshot). Be careful, Southeasters. Best of luck to all.

I should probably rethink the placement of these on my desk.

“Being a woman in tech is insane. We do not work in the same moral system model as most of the people that we interact with daily and we can’t talk about it, because when we do, we are the ones portrayed as crazy or hysterical.” —Irene Y. Zhang (

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Went to The Great Geauga County Fair today, as is our Labor Day tradition. On the way there, we kept an eye on the campaign signs in people’s yards. Once we cleared the suburbs and entered the rural Ohio landscape, there were surprisingly few GOP signs and a shockingly high number of Democratic signs, mostly for Sherrod Brown but also many Harris/Walz signs. I’m not saying Ohio will flip this year, but the difference to past elections was still quite remarkable, so here I am, remarking on it.