L. Jeffrey Zeldman    Your writing needs a permanent home a domain that you own and control. Every few years, the internet convinces writers that a new digital paradise...

L. Jeffrey Zeldman    The instant a business guy uses a sports metaphor to make his most important strategic point, I am lost. If you want me to understand your business...

L. Jeffrey Zeldman    On Sunday, I published Side One of my album on Bandcamp. The name of the album is also Side One. It is instrumental music with roots in Soundtrack,...

L. Jeffrey Zeldman    What happens when leaders choose political expediency over science?The post Stalin decided what was good science. Millions starved. appeared first on...

L. Jeffrey Zeldman    If I learned one thing in 25 years of running design and education companies, it’s that idealism isn’t a business strategy. If you wonder why my...

L. Jeffrey Zeldman    The web is still the best hope we have for a durable, shared memory. But it requires us to be gardeners, not merely tenants. The post Memories Can’t...

L. Jeffrey Zeldman    ON THIS DAY in 1971, Pamela Courson found Doors frontman Jim Morrison dead in the bathtub of their Paris apartment. The cause of death was heart...

L. Jeffrey Zeldman    STOP ME if you’ve heard this one: The members of an extended family spend years curating a shared online photo album. Then the website they posted on...

L. Jeffrey Zeldman    When my brother Pete and I were kids, and our parents were out of town, we ditched school for a week and cut an album by recording backing tracks to...

L. Jeffrey Zeldman    Look back in anchor tags: a partial review of my site’s 31-year visual history before diving into the new design.The post Remembrance of zeldman.coms...

L. Jeffrey Zeldman    She is not here to eat. She is here to ensure my compliance. The post She’s the Boss. appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents.

L. Jeffrey Zeldman    Cameron Cummins-Smith’s grand unifying theory connects the far right’s seemingly disparate obsessions from trans panic and great replacement theory...

L. Jeffrey Zeldman    GIs in Paris by Floyd Davis. Davis served as a Life Magazine artist during WWII, where he was stationed in Paris, France.The post Lest we forget...

L. Jeffrey Zeldman    Maybe I’m special. Or unlucky. But things that supposedly work intuitively for most users tend to fail spectacularly for me. After stints in academia...

L. Jeffrey Zeldman    It was a spring that felt more like winter last week in New York; suddenly it feels like summer. After my air-conditioned bedroom, the living room...

L. Jeffrey Zeldman    Brevity was always a discipline. Now it’s a statement.The post The Courage to Stop appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents.

L. Jeffrey Zeldman    What Carter did in his speech was something rare in the annals of democratic government: he confronted the people with the truth about his own...

L. Jeffrey Zeldman    The best project management tool is still a pen, plus the discipline to notice what the machine cannot. Wisdom from Lucas Radke.The post Handwritten...

L. Jeffrey Zeldman    The best defense is to write humanly.The post Dine ’n em-dash appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents.

L. Jeffrey Zeldman    Bluesky can’t abandon the developers who made a bet on AT Proto, so they should give the protocol to a standards body while catching up on UX. Dave...