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Posts Tagged Writing

How to Write a Book in Three Easy Steps

My book, Design for Community, has just gone out of print. It lives on as a download, but it’s just…

In ALA: Where am I?

Whoops, I did it again. I let a long-simmering annoyance with some quirk of current web design spill over into…

Do What You Suck At

In Merlin’s latest 43 Folders podcast, The Perfect Apostrophe, he tells the story of the book he almost wrote. You…

What Would Google Do?

Google and I, we’re old friends. I’ve written about them here and there for years. Google, as a web innovator,…

Calling All Designers: Learn to Write!

I recently had the good fortune to work with a client who asked me to, in addition to doing my…


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Hi, I’m Derek. I used to make websites. Now I grow flowers and know things. I’m mostly harmless. More.