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Avanceé Reads for 25 Nov 22 🔗
Also published: Reflections of a Difference in Perspective -
Reflections of A Difference in Perspective
Being in a different working & mental space for a week does wonders for one’s psyche …it also can reopen wounds. T... -
Avanceé Reads for 28 Oct 22 🔗
Also published: If Twitter Goes… -
If Twitter Goes…
had this for Monday, forgot to hit Pulbish - whoops For many people, who do not live a significant portion of their live... -
Avanceé Reads for 21 Oct 22 🔗
Also published: Thought Experiment in An OS (operating system) -
Thought Experiment: Excitement in an OS
The other week, a tweet asked: Are you a computer software professional and unhappy with your workstation OS If a bran... -
Avanceé Reads for 14 Oct 22 🔗
Also published: An Analogy of Presence -
An Analogy of Presence
Watching young ones with connectivity is always a lesson. You might see them being distracted, or mindlessly entertained... -
@tkoola i’ve seen that more and more… A little bit of the “no code, low code“ being the main part of the job. With those folks who are doing any coding, as an architect, or being given a different title… and staying very far away from the amount of meetings that other architects go through
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@ben Now this is the perspective on stage manager than I’ve been looking for; very insightful. But I’m still not playing with the beta… And it seems, some iPadOS application developers are not either
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@hollyhoneychurch Now that looks like a lovely, peaceful place. And you look like you’re soaking all of it in
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Avanceé Reads for 26 Aug 22 🔗
Also published: Chatting Humane Wearables with Everett Advisors -
@Archimage oh my, such a memory (small gaming computers). This might be a neat gift for a few of the young ones around me
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Chatting Humane Wearables with Everett Advisors
Capitalizing on a recent re-connect w/Everett Advisors, jumped on a podcast episode w/Sean and chatted about wearables, ... -
Avanceé Reads for 19 Aug 22 🔗
Also published: Robots Arise, Creativity Fails Tweet: On scaling consulting (re: @excapite’s recent post at Tymbals), c... -
Robots Arise, Creativity Falls?
Some time ago, posted a piece of an insight because of the rise in the use of DALL-E (and similar) to re-imagine aspects... -
Avanceé Reads for 12 Aug 22 🔗
Also published: On That Ring Project LinkedIn: Studying past notes, interesting insight: the org layer below “strategy”... -
On that Ring Project
The hardest thing about our long-running NFC ring project is not commandeering the hardware (and software) so that this ... -
Avanceé Reads for 5 Aug 22 🔗
Also published: [LinkedIn: A Simple Teat to Validate Maturity of Design Leadership](www.linkedin.com/posts/ant…] -
Avanceé Reads for 29 July 22 🔗
Also published: Homeostasis As Normal LinkedIn: Yes, it is difficult for many to see what has been prevented because of... -
Homeostasis As Normal
What if productivity is getting to the point (or maybe knowledge work, or any kind of work for that matter) of establish... -
Avanceé Reads for 22 July 22 🔗
Also published: Design’s Credibility -
Design’s Credibility
While listening to Charles Barkley on the Draymond Green podcast, he brings up an interesting point regarding credibilit... -
Avanceé Reads for 15 July 22 🔗
Also published: Platform Semantics Intersection of Outputs and Outcomes -
Platform Semantics
Do I need to care about their platforms? This is a question often asked before going into certain types of training and ... -
Avanceé Reads for 8 July 22 🔗
Also published Independence and Superstition -
Independence and Superstition
Around this time of the year, many in the USA celebrate Independence Day with fireworks, cookouts, parades, and other fe... -
Avanceé Reads for 24 June 22 🔗
Also published: Sensemaking: Learning and Working -
Sensemaking: Learning and Working
To some of us, “sensemaking” isn’t work. It’s an adventure… a self-fueled, sometimes even self-directed, path of disco... -
Avanceé Reads for 17 June 22 🔗
Also published: Thoughts on iPadOS 16’s Stage Manager -
Thoughts on iPadOS 16’s Stage Manager
Furthering some thoughts from last week’s Apple WWDC presentation of iPadOS 16 and Stage Manager. First, the thoughts on... -
Avanceé Reads for 10 June 22 🔗
A good bit more ink and thoughts on this one than the usual. Normally, leaving the arrangement of links is enough to con... -
Avanceé Reads for 27 May 22 🔗
Also published: Maturity Beyond Management Links collected using the newly launched Muse 2.0 (see release at Product Hun... -
Maturity Beyond Management
Recent conversations about change and technology with those who are directly implementing and interacting with what’s ch... -
Avanceé Reads For 20 May 22 🔗
Also published: Comfort, Friction Chatting w/a UX designer (friend) recently who is looking at professional/career p... -
Comfort, Friction
Been doing this thing a little bit more frequently lately where when people are asking what Avanceé is, a demonstration ... -
Avanceé Reads for 13 May 22 🔗
Also published: Data Analysis is Weird Of note, this week’s share of the Muse board comes from the upcoming Muse 2.0 rel... -
Data Analysis is Weird
Something of an “off the cuff” title to this, but in thinking about a few items which have been in the inbox lately, it ... -
Avanceé Reads for 6 May 22 🔗
Also posted: Some Truths About Design Analogy of A Few Dead Evergreens -
Some Truths About Design
What are some things which may be true about design that seem to be ignored or looked over? Could there be truths about ... -
Avanceé Reads for 28 April 22 🔗
Also published: Q1 2022 Article Summaries -
Q1 2022 Avanceé Article Summaries
Running off to quieter platforms is often a decent way to make a distinct sound amongst the others. However, until tract... -
Avanceé Reads for 22 April 22 🔗 🌎🌍🌏
There’s probably something that connects the “22” of today along with Earth Day. Certainly, the reads for this past week... -
Design As Anti-Career
Some folks don’t want to hear the truth. Some want you to placate their expectations until you are no longer of good use... -
Avanceé Reads for 15 April ‘22 🔗
Also published: Disabling Conversations -
Disabling Conversations
While establishing this initiative, several conversations about its purpose and validity have come about. Often, these c... -
Avanceé Reads for 8 April ‘22 🔗
Also published: Artifacts of the Future For other channels, posted an aggregate of the past four months of articles (mi... -
Artifacts of the Future
Since the late winter of 2020, I have moved from an automobile to a multi-modal-centeric view of transportation. Bolster... -
Work Flows Smarter
The deadbolt has been a long running part of many home doors. And more prevalent in those middle class communities where... -
A View of Tomorrow
Sometimes we look at the future as something so far off that it’s almost unimaginable. But what happens when we look at ... -
Avanceé Reads for 18 Feb 22 🔗
A late posting, for a few reasons. But probably timing doesn’t really matter until it does 🤔 -
Avanceé Reads for 11 Feb 22 🔗
Also published: Design’s Dialects -
Design’s Dialects
Across a few previous projects, one shape of deliverable was a data dictionary, or some type of subject-genre lexicon. T... -
Avanceé Reads for 4 Feb 22 🔗
Also published: One-Buttons Successes -
One-Button Successes
“Can you help me just get this process down to where I can click one button and it does what I need?” There’s an anxiety... -
Avanceé Reads for 28 Jan 22 🔗
Also published: Sharpening A Few Arrows Read other articles here. -
Sharpening A Few Arrows
Have been encouraged over the past few weeks with several conversations about what this initiative is about. Into that e... -
Avanceé Reads for 21 Jan 22 🔗
Also published: Three Leg Table -
Three Leg Table
Over the course of many years of mentoring and coaching, there’s been a common axiom shared with folks to help them iden... -
Avanceé Reads for 14 Jan 22 🔗
New year and the reading, linking, threading, and thematic interludes continue. One of the more fascinating aspects of l... -
Podcast: Theology and the Metaverse
The other week, got a chance to hang with an old friend Nigel Scott (@ExCapite) on his new podcast conversations space W... -
A Bit Off the Cuff
Over the past many weeks, have had several conversations, and really insightful pieces of wisdom from various persons, a... -
Notable Reads for 2021 🔗
A year of things read, things shared. With a neat bonus of a piece not shared. Really appreciate the enhancement to Muse... -
Avanceé Reads for 24 Dec 21 🔗
Honestly didn’t think there’d be anything for publishing this week; but, am always reading, and there’s always something... -
Avanceé Reads for 17 Dec 21 🔗
Also published: Identifying the Necessity of Opportunity -
Identifying the Necessity of Opportunity
Part of the market space in which Avanceé plays is within the civic tech space. Civic tech, or the technologies and serv... -
Avanceé Reads 10 Dec 21 🔗
Also published: Figuring Out A Future -
Figuring Out A Future
In dedicating more of a focus to Avanceé, there’s been a good bit of resetting the plate which has happened across sever... -
Avanceé Reads 3 Dec 21 🔗
Also published: Of 2021 Experiments and Ruminations -
Of 2021’s Experiments and Ruminations
This has been an interesting year in regards to various experiments. In some respects, these experiments are a testament... -
Avanceé Reads 26 Nov 21 🔗
Also this week: What Does A Fractional Executive Do / Avanceé’s Fractional Services Offering -
What Does A Fractional Executive Do?
In the recent attention towards Avanceé, one area of interest has been in shaping “fractional executive services.“ Thoug... -
Avanceé Reads 19 Nov 21 🔗
Also this week: Expectations and Boundaries -
Expectations and Boundaries
_Responded to an insightful post on LinkedIn which Dr. Richard Claydon asks about challenges related to going back to th... -
Avanceé Reads 12 Nov 21 🔗
Also this week, Dark Patterns Are Decisions. -
Dark Patterns Are Decisions
Dark Patterns Are Decisions In a recent conversation regarding design governance and operations, the topic of managing d... -
Avanceé Reads 5 Nov 21 ✍🏽🔗
Also this week: Structuting and Shaping DesignOps -
Structuring & Shaping DesignOps
Over the past few months, a series of conversations regarding design operations (DesignOps) has been gaining steam in so... -
Tymbals’s Series on Trust
Our friend at Tymbals has been back at it, (re)publishing a series of posts on the impact of AI, Blockchain and Digital ... -
Avanceé Reads 22 Oct 21 🔗
Missing the Reddit convo about NPM being compromised, but all the other fun reads are as normal -
Token Innovation
Digital transformation Modernization Lane Minimalist There are many terms and fads which make their way through enterpri... -
Avanceé Reads 24 Sept 21 🔗 ✍🏾
Also published Wellness As Future Value -
Wellness As Forward Value
For the past weeks, have been staring a friend’s business card who is involved in the wellness sector. What’s most inter... -
Sensemaking
Today seems to have been a continual gospel about sensemaking. In its most basic definition, sensemaking is the method o... -
Avanceé Reads 6 Aug 21 🔗📝
Article: Ambient Computing Canvses -
Ambient Computing Canvases
What if tablets are the canvas for ambient computing behaviors; not an analogous replacement for laptop/desktop/mobile’s... -
Slowness of Competence
One of the challenges found when involved in transforming organizations is this analysis of the friction, or speed, whic... -
Avanceé Reads 23 July 🔗
Well, that was embarrassing. Trying to post directly from Muse via screenshot didn’t seem to work -
Blank Slate
Looking at the notebook, the calendar Blank slate Am comparing to the previous endeavor maybe a bit too much. Used to wr... -
🖋 Speculative Fiction: OIF Agent
Elements in this come from an existing project; however, nothing from said project or persons involved is directly menti... -
Advanced Tools, Or Advancing Thinking
A shape of some of the work which has framed what’s become Avanceé includes over a decade of corporate training. This tr... -
Avanceé Reads 28 May 🔗
Wonder how Muse’s 1.7 Update will affect these shares in future posts -
Lessons and Opportunities
There’s been some decent attention in the past few weeks to Avanceé (for good reason), and some of the resulting convers... -
Contemplation
Digital Transformation… Manipulation or Decision? Needs more fleshing out… but feels a right direction to peel -
Avanceé Reads 16 April 21 ✍🏾🔗
No scribbles this week. After last week’s mini-vacation from all the things was just good enough to keep a few notes for... -
From A Future 2021 (#FaF21): Discussions and Discovery on Protopian Themes
Excited to have participated once again with the From A Future discussion/conference. An extremely multi-medium conferen... -
Where Have the Articles Gone?
No, really where have the articles gone? They really haven’t gone anywhere. It’s been more case of just collecting topic... -
DTD #2021Resolutions
Do great work Tell your story Deliver great customer service – #2021Resolutions -
2020 Reflection and Rollup
Created w/Muse for iPad -
Lenses (Explanation v1)
Been chewing on the pictured concept a bit more the past few months. Thinking through this concept of lenses as a kind o... -
Mis-Definition of Polymaths
While some others are waking slowly from their feasting over the past day(s), am back on the pedals so to speak. Back at... -
Updating A Few Experiments
The pace of posting here has certainly slowed down from the first years. In part due to activities outside of this ventu... -
Experiments with GoTenna Mesh
Many years back, in a previous endeavor, had looked into the potential and promise of mesh networking and decentralized ... -
Scribble and the Challenge of Input
On this, the day after the release of iPadOS 14, am engaging in a bit of an experiment to see how far and wide the Scrib... -
Essential skills for Knowledge Workers
Was listening to a podcast recently by the good folks at Muse and the wheels started turning when they started speaking ... -
Thinking...
Thinking… A lot about the process of thinking (deep thought, collaborative, synthesis, research, or experimentati... -
Focals & Optical Wearable Challenges
There’s something a bit rough and almost ironic about hearing about optical wearable companies no longer going forward. ... -
WWDC and Frameworks
Still trying to come up with some collective thoughts that makes sense around WWDC. But, the fact of the matter is, as m... -
Electricity’s Equivalent to Plastic
The rise of the eBike. More specifically, a return to the electric bicycle and electronic propulsion as a widely availab... -
Transformation from Middle Management to Automation
Was talking with a former client recently on the topic of about the transformation that is happening within their compan... -
The Interdependency of (Social) Media
If it is not clear already, our relationship with media (broadcast, social, and otherwise) is quite complicated. Often, ... -
LMGTFY
There is always a level of snark when looking at acronyms constituting various attitudes and responses this day and age.... -
Invaluable Tools for New Thinking
Looking back over 20+ years of various entrepreneurial and employee pursuits, a common theme of innovation and inventive... -
Lessons from Mobile on Medium
Have been writing for a long time. And it seems as if every few years that writing shifts a paradigm or two. Before micr... -
Why Keyboards Remain
I figured it out… sort of (thoughts while reading MacStories Apple Magic Keyboard First Impressions) The “why key... -
Is Omni Workspace > Remote Workstation
Many knowledge workers have been relegated to working remotely against the foreground (many Zoom) meetings and attempts ... -
Distributed Work, Flows
As many companies are beginning to understand what they can and cannot do in regards to a distributed workforce, it is a... -
The Parlee Cycles and Toyota Prius Project
Reposting from my personal blog — from 2011 — with a few small edits because it’s a view remembered and maybe worth expl... -
Going To, Putting On
Is it really a relationship, or something different Ruminating on the recently announced update for iPad devices (iPadOS... -
Wearable Awareness
For the past week, have been comparing the use of smart ring (Ōura) and a mood ring. In many respects, both of these dev... -
Notable Reads for 20 Mar 🔗
Haven’t published the “Notable Reads” series at all this year. Part of that being a bit less disciplined in the end of w... -
Gravel Bike Stroll 🕶 📹
Posting a bit different than the usual, a video of one of my latest bike rides. Some call it “gravel,” and some prefer t... -
Leap
As appropriate a day as any other to speak on how to move forward. Leap days could probably be better termed corrective ... -
Strategies of Long-Term Goals
Breaking down how an ant eats an elephant On a current project, a comment was made, “you are playing chess while others ... -
Founding Principles
Where a rogue comment about USA history invokes computational evolutions A friend mentioned about the changing ideals th... -
Evolving the iPad Workspace
Perhaps what was admired as a teen drives adulthood after all This could probsbly be considered a response to @brooksre... -
From A Future
Things seem to be a little bit slow in terms of the new publishing here, but the fact of the matter is that activities h... -
Hearing Sight
Casting new patterns for a new year The past two years, Avanceé has been something of an experiment, and another part a ... -
Notable Reads for 14 Dec 🔗
This time last week, didn’t intend on writing another one of these composed link lists. But, it’s a behavior now associa... -
Inking As Post
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Notable Reads for 7 Dec 🔗
Reflecting on the week, there’s a lot which can theme it. But, an overwhelming sense from others is a sense of tiredness... -
Notable Reads for 29 Nov 🔗
While part of the world yells for redemption, another part aims to grab monetary redemption from feelings ascribed to ho... -
Debating A Slight Shift
When Avanceé launched, it was like finally finding shape to the bottom of a very deep well. That well being a mind and s... -
Notable Reads for 22 Nov 🔗
Was going to theme this around some design concepts, but it occurs that a better topic is that of silence. Or, more spec... -
Notable Reads for 17 Nov 🔗
Reading this weekend a few Kindle samples, and there’s one which has made enough of an impression to consider the full r... -
Reviewing Vue’s Bone Conduction Glasses
After several weeks, impressions of an open letter type It’s been about a month since attaining the Vue glasses — a Kick... -
Notable Reads for 8 Nov 🔗
Added an iPad Mini 5 & Pencil to the toolset recently and it’s actually made for much quieter sessions for evening a... -
Notable Reads for 1 Nov 🔗
Have been away once again. This time because of physical moments. Seasons changing does some interesting, yet humbling, ... -
Ear Muscles
Leveraging newly acquired Vue glasses to explore other ranges of hearing Been sitting on how to best talk about these gl... -
Notable Reads for 19 Oct 🔗
Probably should not do more apologies. And yet a present situation has made for a cadence disruption that probably isn’t... -
Indigenous
Persuading a designer’s shift from “intuitive” to “indigenous” Tearing a perspective from history in order to reclaim a ... -
Visibility, Consistency
Impact isn’t just visibility, but the impression massaged by consistency In a previous draft of this post, there was a r... -
Notable Reads for 4 Oct 🔗
For one reason or another, felt like waiting until the end of the day to share what has been impactful in reading. Impac... -
On Prioritization
When you get into a consistent mode of behaviors and then life gets in the way, you start the journey again by making an... -
Notable Reads for 27 Sept 🔗
The arrival of fall… a resetting of clocks in so many ways. Where the summer was laden with perhaps a slower, res... -
Chronophobia
Term comes from the book Timefullness… fear of time and it’s effects Can remember the moment clearly. Was sitting... -
Notable Reads for 21 Sept 🔗
Wrapped up into a new context and the usual Friday has turned into a late Saturday. Perhaps, it’s because this new conte... -
Explaining A Bicycle for the Mind
A bicycle for the mind requires a different perspective and disruption A common question asked around this time last yea... -
Notable Reads for 13 Sept 🔗
As good a theme for the week’s reads as any. From @yourgirlSylv: There are lots of different kinds of disabilities in t... -
Remote, Control
Pondering a future of knowledge work, managing flow not controlling it Thinking about a few recent projects, and a few f... -
Notable Reads for 6 Sept 🔗
Communicating clarity is not exactly easy. There’s the perspective we have, and then there is the perspective of others.... -
Notable Reads for 30 Aug 🔗
Another week in the books, and yet labor seems to continue. Still processing what it means in the context of a week spen... -
Trendspotting
Moving forward by looking backward When learning to drive, my parents gave me a lot of solid info about dealing with wha... -
Notable Reads for 23 Aug 🔗
The distance between faith and worry… or what’s found in a proposal meeting’s questions. The two states really ar... -
Friction Has A Perspective
Perhaps innovation’s perspective is bound by personal friction One discussion often turns into many. It is excellent whe... -
Notable Reads for 16 Aug 🔗
Sitting down to write and on the window is an insect I’d not seen before. Not a spider, just six legs. And yet, I’m more... -
Organizational Maturity
Happenstance or happen to have a stance Reviewing some older notes on organizations and user experience, came across a f... -
Notable Reads for 9 Aug 🔗
Rest and recovery… or something like that. For one reason or another, you can’t seem to slow down until your body... -
Project: Masala.AI Branding Exploration
Project: Masala.AI Branding Exploration -
15 Minutes to Add Time
Describing an experimental workshop and a focused destination In a few recent conversations about the goals for Avanceé,... -
Notable Reads for 2 Aug 🔗
Cycles… everything seems to happen in cycles. None of these are all that spectacular in and of themselves, but we... -
Mental Knots
Reading a piece about totems and tantrums, was reminded of a term heard once before — mental knots. Basically, when peop... -
Notable Reads for 26 Jul 🔗
Perhaps it is a good thing to have talent to shape a workspace. Companies which figure it out call it culture. But, entr... -
Future Isn’t Far Enough
New headlines, not faster ones Some years ago, attempting to take more control over an online footprint, decided to put ... -
Notable Reads for 19 Jul 🔗
Climate and weather are increasingly the points of topic in the northern hemisphere. Sure, part of it is due to the unco... -
Senses of Approaches
Many approaches, just as there are many senses Having been involved with connected technology since the late 90s, there ... -
Notable Reads for 12 Jul 🔗
Uncharacteristicly quiet this week. Or, more like listening to what others are/aren’t doing in this space more intensly ... -
Notable Reads for 5 July 🔗
Independence. Given the celebration of such for the USA, it’s helpful to stay on theme so to speak. And yet, so much abo... -
Advocacy Transactions
Not the pioneer, but the ones who follow, who create the roads Speaking with a few “coffee office mates” about cycling a... -
Links for 29 June 🔗
Late? Or elite? Part of the reason for things being later than usual, that is the posting of this weeks links, is becaus... -
Technical Literacy As Currency
Every org is a tech org, every tech is it’s currency In some engagements, the product is simply to raise the floor of a ... -
Notable Reads for 22 Jun 🔗
Thought about publishing the weekly links earlier since Friday was quite packed. But, it made sense to wait a bit. There... -
Connectivity As Wellness
When connectivity is wellness A few conversations recently about connectivity and what it means to be well had sparked s... -
Notable Reads for 14 June 🔗
Persistence… for those to whom media has or hasn’t given them attention, there’s the swelling of persistence. For... -
Lessons of Incomplete Design
Less “Finished” and More “What Else Is There” Not every project ends in a beautiful design. Better said, not every proje... -
Notable Reads for 7 June 🔗
What happens when you start thinking about what you can do now and start concentrating a little bit more towards the hor... -
Unstructured/Structured WWDC19 Keynote Thoughts
Unstructured thoughts on Apple’s 2019 WWDC Keynote Did not intend to sit down and write this, so am using Siri dictation... -
Challenges Not Challenging
Not every challenge is challenging One of the most difficult concepts to get across in the middle of the sales process i... -
Notable Reads for 31 May 🔗
Finding and synthesizing readings when the months slow down into heat of summer tends to be a little difficult. Not beca... -
Flashback: June ‘18
June of last year (2018) was an interesting month. Felt like there was a shift which needed to be taken with the content... -
Innovation by Enterprise’s Need
Deftly turning a large ship with a whisper With some clients, the topic of organizational change comes up very often. Th... -
Notable Reads for 24 May 🔗
Writing a forward for an upcoming book and was impressed to think about the contexts of love, lust, and loss. Sounds com... -
Notable Reads for 18 May 🔗
There is a hashtag-day holiday almost every day it seems. Sometimes, these days seem nothing more than the commercializa... -
Flashback: May 2018 🔗
Last week was a flashback to the posts shared last year (April 2018). For this week, it’s a look at what was shared a mo... -
Efficiency and Sufficiency
There’s a pattern to each week here. The long-post to start the week is both summary and launching. Then something in th... -
Notable Reads for 10 May 🔗
Perhaps it is more about paying attention to what matters for most people. What matters are the smaller bits. The digest... -
Flashback to April 18
Flashbacks to what talked about on the site a year ago: Long-Form Thoughts Paying Attention Conversatoins On Creating N... -
Tooling Between Communicating & Designing
Wondering why design tools have been reluctant to evolve Conversations about design methods and software often bracket t... -
Notable Reads for 3 May 🔗
Each week, looking back over what has been an influential read is something of a joy and a hurdle. It’s a joy because th... -
Ethical UX As a Social/Security Vector
Bending UX to see other vectors of organizational ethics A friend and I joked about a photo sent to him. He asked about ... -
Notable Reads for 26 Apr
Paradigm shifts are interesting. Usually, we don’t recognize there has been a change until after the changes happened. B... -
What I Do Exactly
A common question grants a canvas to an uncommon answer: ”So what exactly do I/does Avanceé do?” Heard somewhat often be... -
Notable Reads for 19 Apr
To be mindful or to be inspired? That’s where aspects of the week land when we talk of themes. Perhaps that is not a bad... -
On Collaborative Products
Collaborative software is validated through collaborative experiences before its individual features One of the challeng... -
Notable Reads for 12 Apr 🔗
As mentioned earlier this week, wanted to get back to letting the notable links/reads of the week sit on this pattern. I... -
Back to Reflect
Some weeks back, started to share notable reads as a daily, rather than weekly supplement. And while this was a good ide... -
Notable Reads for 4 Apr 🔗
Moving back to the weekly share next week. Noticed a few things effected by the lack of better curation, especially from... -
Notable Reads for 3 Apr 🔗
Opinion | Why It’s So Easy for a Bounty Hunter to Find You - The New York Times Read at 11:13 PM Heaven or High Water &... -
Notable Reads for 2 Apr 🔗
Manipulating the YouTube Algorithm - (Part 1/3) Smarter Every Day 213 - YouTube Read at 9:45 PM How the US has hidden i... -
Notable Reads for 1 Apr 🔗
Started to just skip the links for yesterday given the various pranks. A later sharing of the non-prank reads makes sens... -
Notable Reads for Mar 30 and 31 🔗
Notable Reads for Mar 30 How Apple Card works – TechCrunch Read at 11:44 PM Steven Sinofsky on Twitter: “1/ Pre-a... -
Notable Reads for 28 Mar 🔗
Garfield phones beach mystery finally solved after 35 years - BBC News Read at 6:57 PM Job vacancies | Nuffield Foundat... -
Notable Reads for 27 Mar 🔗
Arm Yourself With Specific Knowledge Read at 9:56 PM AiriPods | Asymco Read at 9:31 PM A Dollar Will Take You Less Than... -
Notable Reads for 26 Mar 🔗
Exploration vs Exploitation | Noah Brier dot Com Read at 11:05 PM Another tax on the poor: Surrendering privacy for sur... -
Notable Reads for 25 Mar 🔗
Google Stadia Is a Net Neutrality Nightmare – Variety Read at 10:13 PM OpenStax Read at 10:03 PM “I didn’t have c... -
Notable Reads from 23 & 24 Mar 🔗
Notable Reads from 24 Mar Why the Olympic Games Are Steering Clear of E-Sports Read at 9:22 PM Man stole $122m from Fac... -
Starting from Convo
Building a design ethos, one conversation at a time In talking with people about Avanceé, one of the questions that come... -
Notable Reads for 22 Mar 🔗
Manton Reece (@manton) Read at 1:19 PM Trusting Driverless Cars - Library - Google Design Read at 1:04 PM Opinion | Own... -
Notable Reads for 21 Mar 🔗
Harvard sued by descendant of U.S. slave photographed in 19th century Read at 10:08 PM How the iPad Pro is CHANGING mus... -
Notable Reads for 20 Mar 🔗
When Your Body Says No | Outside Online Read at 11:27 PM Stop trying to solve traffic and start building great places R... -
Notable Reads for 19 Mar 🔗
Designing digital products for bioinformatics — Part II Read at 2:48 PM STRIKE! Magazine — On the Phenomenon of Bullshi... -
Notable Reads for 18 Mar 🔗
People can sense Earth’s magnetic field, brain waves suggest | Science News Read at 11:28 PM Just enjoy the ride – Stev... -
Notable Reads for 17 Mar 🔗
Elon Musk: the Architect of Tomorrow— Rolling Stone Read at 10:15 PM Musk: Osborning His Model 3 – Monday Note Read at ... -
Notable Reads for 16 Mar 🔗
Can cars deliver micromobility? Read at 10:35 PM Leighton Cusack on Twitter: New project I’m working on: t.co/IWVcPAds9... -
Notable Reads for 15 Mar 🔗
In the midst of putting this together, got into a conversation about parents vs parenting. The approach of fostering wha... -
Reflecting on ‘19 So Far
Usually, the middle of the week has been used to share concepts or lingering sketches for current or past projects. Felt... -
Deep Thought Paradigm: Workspace
Further ruminations on the specifics of “deep thought” paradigms in a workspace Weird the things which cause a rekindlin... -
Notable Reads for 8 Mar
It was almost written like a “poor me” metronome. That look back over the week which wasn’t as successful as hoped. Whic... -
Notable Read for 6 Mar
Simply because this could not wait for Friday’s collection. Feels like it’s too important of a topic to the @microdotblo... -
Auditing the Peculiar ID/UX Setup
Documenting and adutiing a peculiar (to some) way of working in the interaction design/user experience space When using ... -
Status As A Serivce by @eugenewei
Status As A Serivce by @eugenewei Probably a good thesis for @microdotblog as well as a note of caution and hope for success -
Notable Reads for 1 Mar 🔗
Looking at one of the last snowfalls of the season out of the window, am reminded of there always being just a little bi... -
Concept: On-Demand Disability Transit App
Concept: On-Demand Disability Transit App -
Unshapen and Focused
Being thrust back to the future of unshapen mobiles and their implications Spent a nice day recently, conversing with ot... -
Notable Reads for 22 Feb 🔗
Fast and slow. A reminder of the cold of winter, the persistence of bias, and the surprise of ingenuity. These swings ar... -
Simply Perspective
Using perspective of the future to communicate a simply, accessible present Living in a space where there’s some freedom... -
Notable Reads for 15 Feb
Resonance… That word spoke to what kept coming back towards this week. Not simply because resonance is both noun ... -
Reviewing Concepts
Taking some time today to review a few past concepts. The ideation that led to these (and a few others) could use some r... -
Human Factors of Efficiency
Perspectives of humane factors for defining efficiency Long before Avanceé was a clear concept, work was a series of sup... -
Notable Reads for 8 Feb 🔗
Pattens can provoke actions. The provocation can seem as if it is elongating friction, or pointing to a diminishing infl... -
Tuning the CIO
Tuning aspects of the CIO position into temporary, effective leadership Looking back at a recent project, part of the an... -
Notable Reads for 1 Feb 🔗
Throughly enjoy those moments where there’s a cross-pollination of experiences and talents. There’s something about gett... -
Simplicity Then Forward
Staring with simplifying as identifying how forward In the past weeks, Avanceé has had conversations with companies havi... -
Notable Reads for 24 Jan 🔗
The are times when it is suitable to be reminded that aspects of connected technologies do or dont’t move so fast. Am re... -
Notable Reads for 18 Jan 🔗
Some challenges are harder than others. When in the midst of significant change, the challenge to maintain one’s bearing... -
Shortcuts and the Challenge of Flow
The use of Apple Shortcuts and an ability to maintain “flow states” of productivity on iOS When talking about productivi... -
Notable Reads for 11 Jan 🔗
2019 is off and running — so to speak. Challenges in the USA with budgets and government shutdowns notwithstanding, ther... -
Scribbling Notes Towards Refined Abilities
Could going about sharing digitally using an analog analogy unveil the better AI There’s something “rough” about the way... -
Notable Reads for 4 Jan 🔗
Bringing in the new year with a slight rebranding of the week’s links 🔗🔖, now called Notable Reads. And if all works out... -
Avanceé in 2018: Articulating Focus
2018 was the first year for Avanceé. With new initiatives, there is usually a specific product or problem statement spri... -
Links for 2018
Just about every week in 2018, Avanceé shared a selection of links which stuck out amongst the noise. Some of these high... -
Links for 21 Dec
The way this part of the season has developed, one is supposed to take inventory of the year, admonish themselves for ma... -
Deep Thought As A UI Paradigm
Avanceé has elevated many discussions and topics throughout this first year. Much of this is overflow from projects, but... -
Links for 12 Dec
Per the usual cadence of this time of year, certain newsbits slow down, projects find their way into a quieter reverb, a... -
Resource: The Field Study Handbook
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Experimental World Design
There are those who invent the future before its imagined… that happens here too In one of the reads highlighted ... -
Links for 8 Dec
Better late than never? Or, better next than never? Sometimes, the framing we have for what we want to do and what’s bee... -
Concept: Olelo eBike Branding
Updete: This was a missed submission for the GM eBike Challenge -
Under Your Nose
Chances are you don’t need a design strategy to fix your product/market fit. The solution to your woes is likely under y... -
Links for 30 Nov
There’s a different pace to the end of the year. For some, its about making sure that the mistakes and opportunities of ... -
Technological Advents
Having written once and found the item gone into the ether, there was the day’s events spent thinking (in the background... -
Links for 23 Nov
Keeping to the usual flow of posting the week’s curated links despite the extension of the holiday weekend in the USA. G... -
Concept: 1847 Philanthropic Side Deck
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Conversations Create New Roads
Lots of email newsletters have been pushed out this year. So many are a collection of links, maybe some marketed goods,... -
Clarity in Conversation
Each conversation is another lesson in what others might do or want to do in order to make steps forward. The most commo... -
Links for 16 Nov
Feels a bit as if this was a week of momentum gained. There was clarity regarding Avanceé (in communicating product, pur... -
Concept (full): Hiking Workout for Apple Watch
Previously posted a small portion of this concept -
Perceiving Productivity Normally
Using an iPad to teach how to use a PC changes perceptions and behaviors of productivity Over the past month, have been ... -
Weekends in A Snap Space
Might be a weekend, but pressing forward deserves play spaces not always as linear as a weekday’s newsfeed -
Links for 9 Nov
Perhaps the entrance of a new series of iPads is not a reason to be ancy about the potentials and downsides of various t... -
Avanceé Teams with Tymbals
Avanceé announces a teaming with Tymbals, an Edge Design House. Meaningful design is impactful, sustainable, ethical, an... -
Links for 2 Nov
It is often said that more data is a good thing. Whether that data is relevant or irrelevant almost doesn’t get talked a... -
Intuitive As Design
Arguing for intuition over prediction or known indicators? Yes and no. In between a clearly identified problem and its “... -
Links for 26 Oct
What should we better do now that we understand the uniqueness of the world in which we live? Not that everything is by ... -
Concept: Sunday Thought Continued
Sunday Thought via Twitter -
Inventing the Other Stuff
In between the actual projects taken up by this Avanceé banner, there’s some intentional thinking space given to creatin... -
Links for 19 Oct
Coming to the halfway point of October with all indications that the holidays will have as much lights, noise, and persp... -
Experience Strategy & Engineering Complexity
Came across a few terms when looking further into some of the problem spaces of digitally-augmented teams and organizati... -
Links for 12 Oct
Thoughts about the next waves, and the impending dooms, which have been brought forth not just by our actions, but our i... -
#inktober - Case Management Flow
Drawn using Paper by 53 on iPad Pro. -
Why I Use Earn.com for Contact Form
In a recent conversation, it was asked why there’s such “friction” to contacting me/Avancee. For a little more than a y... -
Links for 5 Oct
There are methods and plans for all kinds of endeavors, but the joy in the remix and release is usually more fulfilling ... -
The Disconnect
Talking w/client about offline options for a future project & remembered the innovative approach of @the__disconne... -
Brigadoon Annapolis Transcript, Pt4
Final installment of the notes which led to our Brigadoon Annapolis lecture on Digital Humanism. View Part 1 View Part ... -
Brigadoon Annapolis Transcript, Pt3
Continuing a sharing of the notes which led to our Brigadoon Annapolis lecture on Digital Humanism. - View Part 1 - View... -
Concept: SmartTrip for Apple Watch
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Brigadoon Annapolis Transcript, Pt2
Continuing a sharing of the notes which led to our Brigadoon Annapolis lecture on Digital Humanism. View Part 1 of the n... -
Brigadoon Annapolis Transcript, Pt1
Am going to spend a few posts sharing the thoughts and transcript/speaker notes which went into our Brigadoon Annapolis ... -
Week’s Perspective
Erasing the whiteboard and readying for another week of challenges, insights, and new perspectives to open. Sometimes th... -
Links for 28 Sept
Searching, scratching, and using beats on 808s to do something like matching. Each week the links here are a mix and rem... -
Your Ring Does What?
One of the ways in which Avanceé finds its bearings within conversations happens around the constellation of devices on ... -
Brigadoon Annapolis via Kownacki
Enjoying a trip back to @the_brigadoon Annapolis via the pics taken by @bkownacki — so many of them capture the energy ... -
Links for 21 Sept
Throughly enjoyed sharing a bit about “digital humanism” at Annapolis Brigadoon over the past days. Yet, for as much as ... -
Brigadoon Annapolis on Snap
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Going to share clips of our “digital humanism” talk for @the_brigadoon (on the boat) via @Snapchat @Spectacles tomorrow. A few clips from tonight already snapped/posted.
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Immersed in iOS Shortcuts
Would usually take a week+ to read @macstoriesnet’s iOS 12 Review, but the writing made it a one-night affair; the Short... -
Nuance and Apple Watch Series 4
Reading, listening, and watching reviews of Apple Watch Series 4 For as much as reviewer’s who have had a limited amount... -
Sketch2Code Homework
Doing some homework around @Microsoft’s #Sketch2Code for a bit today. This is the kind of action which could easily be a... -
(re)Starting with New Assumptions
Have had a number of positive conversations since starting on this Avanceé journey. For the most part, conversations hav... -
Links for 14 Sept
Clouds and rain seem to make something of a calming moment for many. For others, clouds and rain portend a change. Wheth... -
Normal Until Disaster
Natural disasters often spring thoughts of what works and doesn’t work about the normal processes and tools we utilize. ... -
Livability As Productivity
Avanceé has accidentally been speaking towards two roads, design as normative to computing and productivity’s redefiniti... -
Links for 7 Sept
There’s this stretch of life which happens right at the end of summer when many folks start picking up the pace. An anxi... -
Experiments Amore
Going to experiment again tomorrow… been playing w/potential tweak to service offerings. Tomorrow will be a good ... -
Asking Better UX Questions
Stumbled across a discussion about user experience (UX) and a new tool from Microsoft called Sketch2Code the other week.... -
Links for 31 Aug
There’s something of a flood coming. At least, depending on the genre you are watching, listening to, or consumed by the... -
MicroMobility Podcast
Really interesting… never met @asymco yet this is maybe the 3rd time having noticed him syncing/pivoting to a sim... -
Design, Design Systems, & Patterns
“Design” is a recognized topic in many corporate circles. The value of what design does for business has become the next... -
Links for 24 Aug
It has been something of a flashback in seeing how many have made their way over to MicroBlog. Sure, Twitter acting out ... -
Network Effects and Twitter Removal
Thinking about taking some more chances with the content posted through this @microdotblog account and it hits that some... -
Productivity As Identity
Shifting modes of transportation invites a revisit into what productivity looks like. When one adds a commute, they add ... -
Links for 17 Aug
Tossing about whatever sticks. Or, are we making trails inside and beyond the streams other conversations and concepts h... -
Awareness or Aware-less
Tweeted the other day about some new explorations happening with indentity and authentication and it was pretty clear th... -
Links for 10 Aug
The middle of the year has passed and there’s some sense of “if you haven’t made that 2018 change now, then you better g... -
Concept: PhD Search Notebook
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Reading, Recognizing, & Lenses
Years before the genesis of Avanceé, there was Mobile Ministry Magazine, a website and magazine geared to assisting fait... -
Links for 3 Aug
There’s sometimes no getting around this point — there’s just a whole lot out there to sift through, and even more right... -
Links for 27 July
Lots of flooding — both in rainfall and information — across various timelines this week. It’s almost as if the summer h... -
Concept: Limited, Interactive Dashboard
Concept: Limited, Interactive Dashboard App (for Tablets First); made with Paper for iOS -
Mobility
There’s much change happening about transportation. In urban areas, the technology which has fueled the hockey-stick lik... -
Links for 20 July
Sometimes, it doesn’t matter what exactly you might be trying to avert your attention from, there are some news and note... -
Project Idea: Wellness Enabler
Had an idea earlier this year about purchasing a health company (I Should buy A Digital Health Company); haven’t really ... -
Blockers and Filters
In one of our recent projects, we are mapping workflows which are no longer being used due to organizational and staff c... -
Links for 13 July
Travel and sickness often makes for unusual insights. Then again, there are some questions we don’t ask when we are well... -
On Workflows
Many years ago, the word/phrase to be found around the workplace was “workflow.” Between the many folks selling workflow... -
Links for 6 July
Independence is an agreement, but not an inevitable decision. At least, that’s how it feels when looking at the links fo... -
The Appendage Conundrum
As we pulled up to the mall, Steve felt there was something he’d show me. Little did he know, I was going to use this c... -
Links for 29 June
The future should be described in more optimistic terms than perhaps scholars or the entertainment industry has put fort... -
Concept: Podcast UI
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Tools on Deck: Adobe Comp CC
The tools used on Windows and macOS machines just aren’t usable in the same manner on Apple’s iOS devices. That has requ... -
Links for 22 June
Finding this week’s links light in terms of quantity, but heavier in terms of context and implications. In some measure,... -
Past Project: All Books UI (Aged UI)
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Exploring ‘Digital Humanism’
There are a few terms worth talking about — or maybe it is just the phrase which needs to find its way beyond the unexpl... -
Links for 15 June
A week away from things, slightly unintentionally. Having been given a closer-than-usual seat at the start of a life, on... -
Concept: Mentor Tracker App
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Notes As Art
As has been the case for the past few weeks, the top of the week has been regarded as the space for the week’s long-form... -
Concept: Hiking Workout for Apple Watch
Concept: Hiking Workout for Apple Watch (before it was annoucned for watchOS 5) -
Experience Last
The project is well-past the kickoff, and it feels as if there are no other successes to be pulled. The pace of developm... -
Links for 1 June
Closing another week and there are just enough hours to share a few influential links passed this week: A 2-Year Stanfo... -
Concept: Tymbals Risk Assessment Tool
Concept: Tymbals Risk Assessment Tool; made with Paper by FiftyThree -
Educating Shaping Working
Though the roster took up to 12 students, there were only a half-dozen registered for the class. However, only one showe... -
Links for 25 May
Happy GDPR Day! Ok, maybe that’s not the best way to open the week’s link share. Yet, there’s something to be said about... -
The Features Trap
Asking for features but wanting better methods For a number of years, SharePoint had been a part of the toolkit for proj... -
Links for 18 May
The backend of Spring has hit a number of places and industries differently. Where some areas are getting so much rain t... -
From Mundane to Tactile
A long day where you move about within about a 25ft radius yet still travel across continents, trade information, and en... -
Links for 11 May
Would be the easy excuse to say that the usual posting scheme was disrupted because of the work on deck, but that’s not ... -
Links for 4 May
Its about that time again… really need to think about better ways to introduce the week’s links of interest, refl... -
Living in A Future Present
The reflection starts in using augmented memories. What was an an enjoyable time of food, drinks, and dancing is now not... -
Links for 27 April
Another week in the books and the threads are aplenty. And maybe that’s just a sign of spring — lots of items coming to ... -
Move Fast and Shape Things
The other week, we looked back as to what’s been published so far, and there has really been a decent amount of content.... -
Identity and Instinctive Travels
What happens to fall inside or outside of the work to be done might be considered a distraction. As part of building a d... -
Twitter Posting Gone Awry
Now that’s interesting. For some reason, posting to Twitter stopped happening a few days ago. It looks like cross-postin... -
Links for 20 April
Back again with a few links which have made something of influence here and there throughout the week. At the same time ... -
Current vs Currents
Composing this as the start of yet another Excel class is about to begin. The framing is simple — to get a company of pe... -
Algorithmic Impact Assessment Framework
Interesting Algorithmic Impact Assessments via AI Now Institute - via Benedict Evans’s Weekly Newsletter The Algorithmi... -
NACTO Guidelines
Reading - there’s a good bit of insight towards cycling & public transport I’d not seen before (had convos however).... -
Wavelength
Totally late on this (as usual), but it looks like there’s a podcast client created by Micro.Blog’s inventor Wavelength ... -
Thought
Spent the week developing a Twitter/Medium strategy for a group. Sketching the blueprint was good for this moment; but t... -
Links for 13 April
Sometimes, milestones and reflections are more for yourself than for others. But, its certainly interesting when we hear... -
Cutting New Roads
Somewhere in the weeds, or maybe beyond the bushes with the hard bristles and leaves, is that thing you and your team ha... -
Links for 6 April
Another week in the books, and while it is after the holiday, there’s nothing slow about the pace of reading and contemp... -
Convo On Creating New Textiles
trying something where original “tweets” happen here versus on Twitter first Spoke w/a woman the other day who takes scr... -
Paying Attention
Yesterday, spent some time on an upcoming podcast and one of the questions asked was about what new technologies or pers... -
Links for 30 March
In the midst of a holy season for so many faith groups, its good to have points like these to reflect on items which put... -
Simple Image, Simple Focuses
It has been almost four months since starting Avanceé and there’s always this tension that it can be refined a bit more,... -
Links for 26 March
Whoops, got way too into work and life on Friday and missed links for last week; here’s whats been grabbing attention, t... -
Opining on the Value of Metrics
You can’t improve what you don’t measure In a recent conversation with an executive director of a youth-reaching program... -
Links for 16 March
This has been a week of considering not just the validity of approach, but how work has to respond to methods and tools ... -
Methods and Tools of Work
Over the weekend, spent a bit of time diving into the work of service design during the Global Service Jam. There’s some... -
Links for 9 March
Another week in the books, and more or less some interesting covers unveiled throughout the links of note this week. Tak... -
The Transition of Change
Caught in that time period right between the cold of winter that remains on your memory until the rest of the year, and ... -
Links for 2 March
Another week in the books and its been a pretty packed one. Here are the links which have come across the screens & ... -
Links for 23 Feb
I think an earlier thought about being intuitive on purpose might be a truer characterization of Avanceé than many other... -
Reflections Forward
Pausing from developing a prototype to think and ruminate a bit about the point of the actions we do forward. Not so muc... -
Links for 16 Feb
There’s a feeling of awe and accomplishment each week publishing the links of interest. Not simply because it offers a t... -
Design Is More than What You See
Feels weird to say this, but there seems to be something of a blind spot when it comes to the design industry. A vast ma... -
Links for 9 Feb
Welcome to Friday, and despite the higher-than usual amount of work, there’s still plenty of good writing which has happ... -
Looking Beyond the Horizon
Generally, we look towards some unidentifable place beyond the horizon to set a goal. Some call it “moonshot” and others... -
Links for 2 Feb
If last week was a case of trying to pick the best from a large stack, this week is more like trying to find the best it... -
Misplaced Perceptions of User Experience
There are many organizations, upon hearing the term “user experience” land on the perception of “finally getting a pleas... -
Links for 26 Jan
For the most part, keeping the links list to 3-5 items has proven to be pretty hard this week as there has been a bit mo... -
Going Beyond Design Thinking
Often, we would like to think that doing an analysis, reinvesting in the mission/vision, or even deploying a new technol... -
Links for 19 Jan
This week’s links of interest and contemplation: Nintendo Labo In Which a Neural Network Learns to Tell Knock-Knock Jok... -
Describing Avanceé’s Key Themes
Missed on Tuesday’s big post due to activites & focuses going elsewhere. But here’s a key theme: tools we use shape ... -
Links for 12 Jan
Some links which have stood out this week: Turning Design Mockups Into Code With Deep Learning Big data meets Big Broth... -
Design Thinking... Maybe Similar
If Avanceé sounds like aspects of design thinking, that’s deliberate. To invite out-of-the-box perspectives into “busine... -
Links for 5 Jan
Every few weeks we’ll share some links to pieces which point towards some POV that enables, challenges, or speaks to wor... -
Explaining “Out-of-the-Box“
Avanceé is a deliberate effort to help successful product teams figure out what’s next. It isn’t so much making existing... -
Welcome to Avanceé
Avanceé is a new organization - one part design consultanty, another part inventor’s factory - where we empower re...
