Posts Tagged ‘deathtobullshit’

The age of average (encore) by Alex Murrell is a wild analysis of how the technology landscape has changed the shape of music.  “Media has always shaped music,” the author states, (David Byrne’s How Music Works is a wonderful book […]

As we speak, the battle that platforms are fighting is against generative spam, a cartoonish and obvious threat of outright nonsense, meaningless chum that can and should (and likely will) be stopped. In the process, they’re failing to see that […]

While there’s nothing particularly revolutionary here, Why You Should Stop Reading News shares an important message that needs to be repeated often.

This is a powerful and important read from Max Böck: He rightfully assesses the state of the landscape in its present form: This is the web as envisioned by late-stage capitalism: a giant freemium game where absolutely everyone and everything […]

in our society, there seems a general rule that, the more obviously one’s work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it Source: STRIKE! Magazine – On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs

MODALZ MODALZ MODALZ by Adrian Egger is fantastic in both its message and design.

This is the dumbest publishing platform on the web. Write something, hit publish, and it’s live. There’s no tracking, ad-tech, webfonts, analytics, javascript, cookies, databases, user accounts, comments, friending, likes, follower counts or other quantifiers of social capital. The only practical […]

I recently wrote a post about Facebook being a needy sonofabitch. They desperately try to get you there, and once they have you they do all they can to keep you there. It’s like a restaurant that bombards your doorstep […]

I wrote about Facebook’s aggressive tactics, and Steve Portigal responded with a recommendation for FBPurity. F.B. Purity is a browser extension / add-on that lets you clean up and customise Facebook. It filters out the junk you don’t want to […]

Several months ago, I turned off notifications from Facebook on my phone. Last week, I went ahead and removed the Facebook app from my phone. Now, I genuinely enjoy Facebook. I use it for keeping up with with my family […]

The folks from The Outline reached out to me to get my thoughts on crufty websites. Of course I have opinions. I saw some people commenting on the irony of a site with a really out-there design critiquing other websites. […]

Adobe asked me to weigh in on the most common web design mistake I see. The answer in a word: bullshit. But of course I elaborated a bit. I think the most common web design mistake I see is sites […]

Last week I launched Death to Bullshit, a site and blog that explore the themes of information, bullshit, and craft. On the site, I argue that people are bombarded by more information–and bullshit–than ever. People understandably want to minimize the amount of bullshit they’re […]

I’m pleased to introduce Death to Bullshit, a site and blog that explore the themes of information, bullshit, and craft. We’re bombarded by more information than ever before. With the rise of all this information comes a rise of the amount […]

With the exception of being called a “creative”, I’m very flattered to have my Death to Bullshit talk be featured on the Made In PGH website.

This is fantastic. Josh Higgins created a logo inspired by my Death to Bullshit talk.

It’s 2014, and every website I visit hits me with some nonsense overlay. Stop it. I’m sure they’re effective. And I could get people on the street to take my survey by threatening them with a claw hammer. That would be […]

My Death To Bullshit video was featured on 99u.

Some interesting thoughts about how the days of marketing at people are quickly fading away, and then in order to be successful in this day in age brands/companies/people need to actually make things that are genuinely useful. While this post […]

My slides from Reasons To Be Creative.

I love this animated gif @adamenglebright made from my Death To Bullshit talk at Reasons To Be Creative.

Liz Andrade and Niki Brown spent some time discussing my Death To Bullshit Creative Mornings talk on their Pagebreak podcast. It’s cool to see how others interpret these concepts.

They’ve published photos from my Death To Bullshit Creative Mornings talk. Images courtesy of @PlanetPeek. Watch the video here

It was an extreme honor to be invited to speak at Creative Mornings in Pittsburgh. I love the lecture series and it was an honor to speak in my hometown about one of my favorite topics: the future. I had […]