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Members May 27, 2021 by dc in newsletter

CT No.83: Reflections on peace, fear and violence in Minneapolis

5.27.21: An essay about the murder of George Floyd, violence and policing

Members May 20, 2021 by dc in newsletter-archive

CT No.82: Announcing the content designer's toolkit

5.20.21: Submit your favorite content design software nominations! Say hi and ask for advice on Fridays + a couple of links.

Paid members May 13, 2021 by dc

CT No.81: Are your ads/PR working? Organic data has an answer

5.13.21: Measuring brand awareness, my favorite subscription-focused ESP, and the iPhone privacy referendum

Members May 6, 2021 by dc in newsletter-archive

CT No.80: Own that brand!

5.6.21: The ultimate guide to branded SEO, a review of my favorite media monitoring software, and some deeply heady links

Paid members April 29, 2021 by dc in newsletter

CT No.79: The politics of software

4.29.21: Basecamp's woes shouldn't be your Basecamp-loving team's; time tracking is the secret to your content business; the complete guide to cumulative layout shift and more.

Members April 22, 2021 by dc in newsletter

CT No.78: Landing page islands and design-forward websites

4.22.21: Why your content strategist grumbles when you say the phrase "landing page", an amazing no-code web design tool, and a case study on capturing a Gen Z voice in a fintech app

Spotlight newsletter

CT No.243: Disambiguation, sliding doors, hallucinations, and madeleines

CT No.242: What's your vector, Victor?

How to understand tokens and vector embeddings, for word people.

CT No.241: TF? ID(GA)F: The old faithfuls of language processing

Even in the face of "black box" algorithms, the history of artificial intelligence—natural language processing, more specifically—has left plenty of clues. While we can't understand the full equation, we can see how building blocks create common patterns in how current algorithms process language.

CT No.240: Mad inconvenient infrastructure

Infrastructure, no matter how solid or planned or continuously improved, gets messy. Observing humanity in July feels like the ultimate UX research experiment.

CT No.239: Please automate the tedious part for me

July is prime chart-making season. July 2025 is one more chartmaking season that will not be powered by artificial intelligence, and here's why.