Information architecture is the unloved, often invisible, sibling of the product design disciplines. When I started my career, IA was emerging from library science, organising and categorising content was important. Google killed that. IA retreated into the barren wastelands. …

Stuff I’ve read recently and thoughts I had while I reading. Paperclips. Automation. AI. Jobs. ‘Paperclips’ took over the office with a horribly addictive game: http://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html Ethical Issues In Advanced Artificial Intelligence While the possibility of domain-specific "superintelligences" is also worth exploring, this paper focuses on issues…nickbostrom.com The paper that goes with the game is just as interesting but a bit more challenging. Speculatively exploring some of the ethical issues around…

“MVP” suffers from over exposure. It has lost its original meaning. Like “beta” before it, MVP is often (usually?) used to allow corner cutting with empty promises of fixing it next time. We should be using clear language that is descriptive and has meaning built in. Beta and MVP did…