Ron Bronson
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Studying social trust & platform economics in the AI age. Critical design. Mostly tweets about ephemera. 18F alum. UMich faculty. newsletter: makingpublicwork.com | ronbronson.design 🇫🇮
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...highly skilled people becoming just a "cog in the machine" churning out analyses they don't get to question. If you don't do this, you are failing to lead on research and data, imho.
Wrote a bit about the features of this kind of corporate groupthink here: www.drcathicks.com/post/corpora...
Wrote a bit about the features of this kind of corporate groupthink here: www.drcathicks.com/post/corpora...
Corporate Attribution Error
I made up this term the other day and frankly, I just liked it so much that I wanted to document it on my blog so I would remember it. The term is Corporate Attribution Error. Corporate Attribution Er...
www.drcathicks.com
December 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM
...highly skilled people becoming just a "cog in the machine" churning out analyses they don't get to question. If you don't do this, you are failing to lead on research and data, imho.
Wrote a bit about the features of this kind of corporate groupthink here: www.drcathicks.com/post/corpora...
Wrote a bit about the features of this kind of corporate groupthink here: www.drcathicks.com/post/corpora...
How did Portlandia get its own IFC channel and plays non-stop? Is this the new syndication? (
December 27, 2025 at 4:58 PM
How did Portlandia get its own IFC channel and plays non-stop? Is this the new syndication? (
The Cataylst review on Abundance was good catalyst-journal.com/2025/12/the-...
The Left Has Always Fought for Abundance
The Left once promised plenty for all. Now liberals call for abundance while socialists hesitate and environmentalists shudder. The NGO-industrial complex these liberals target is indeed a fetter on p...
catalyst-journal.com
December 26, 2025 at 10:11 PM
The Cataylst review on Abundance was good catalyst-journal.com/2025/12/the-...
The #scentsky collection has outgrown the stand, need to consider an alternative not about display just being able to access them a bit easier.
December 26, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The #scentsky collection has outgrown the stand, need to consider an alternative not about display just being able to access them a bit easier.
♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Syndrome 81 (36) RANCŒUR (31) The National (24) Camera Silens (23) COUPE GORGE (22). #myweekcounted 848 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lastfm.blue
December 26, 2025 at 5:05 AM
♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Syndrome 81 (36) RANCŒUR (31) The National (24) Camera Silens (23) COUPE GORGE (22). #myweekcounted 848 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lastfm.blue
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I've been reading this history of the space race recently and it makes all the AI stuff seem so uninspiring and silly. People made rockets go to the moon and you made a chatbot you can sext with...
December 25, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I've been reading this history of the space race recently and it makes all the AI stuff seem so uninspiring and silly. People made rockets go to the moon and you made a chatbot you can sext with...
The problem when you see "systems everywhere" is stumbling into a story about the lack of newly build ski resorts and thinking "that's gonna make a great class example" but alas...
December 23, 2025 at 10:56 PM
The problem when you see "systems everywhere" is stumbling into a story about the lack of newly build ski resorts and thinking "that's gonna make a great class example" but alas...
the best conferences are the ones where when you run into an alum of the event and it's like a summer camp reunion
December 23, 2025 at 6:13 PM
the best conferences are the ones where when you run into an alum of the event and it's like a summer camp reunion
the privatization of proximity
December 23, 2025 at 2:20 AM
the privatization of proximity
my favorite immaculate grid days are when it's two founding franchises and discovering all of the old timey randos who played for those teams that i've never heard of, but who had a good season or two in their own right
December 23, 2025 at 12:37 AM
my favorite immaculate grid days are when it's two founding franchises and discovering all of the old timey randos who played for those teams that i've never heard of, but who had a good season or two in their own right
only way i'd save the lloyd center is by turning it into the baseball stadium site. not everything is meant to live forever, folx
December 23, 2025 at 12:08 AM
only way i'd save the lloyd center is by turning it into the baseball stadium site. not everything is meant to live forever, folx
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idk man, i’d just like to live in a future where i could stop finding new and increasingly worse applications for the That’s Photoshopped skillset i developed in the late nineties
December 22, 2025 at 5:01 PM
idk man, i’d just like to live in a future where i could stop finding new and increasingly worse applications for the That’s Photoshopped skillset i developed in the late nineties
can't wait to live out the real life sequel of the 2011 cinematic masterpiece "In Time"
Oh hey let’s check in on the CEO of Oura to see his surprising take on regulation.
Opinion | With Less Regulation, Your Oura Ring Could Do More
Restrictions on ‘medical devices’ currently prevent us from unlocking some capabilities.
www.wsj.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:49 PM
can't wait to live out the real life sequel of the 2011 cinematic masterpiece "In Time"
Counting Crows documentary is great, I'm glad they only covered the first two records. Hearing about 90s bands is great because I can't conjure what documentaries for modern bands will be like, I don't think it'll be as romantic idk. :
an old mario yells at cloud newspaper with a picture of mario on it
ALT: an old mario yells at cloud newspaper with a picture of mario on it
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December 21, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Counting Crows documentary is great, I'm glad they only covered the first two records. Hearing about 90s bands is great because I can't conjure what documentaries for modern bands will be like, I don't think it'll be as romantic idk. :
i've been telling people for a while that pickelball's ascent is a PE play not organic demand for a professional league, because it's not a good tv sport. frontofficesports.com/how-pickleba...
How Pickleball Became One Massive Private-Equity Rollup - Front Office Sports
Billionaire Tom Dundon has been quietly collecting pickleball properties to amass a portfolio covering every corner of the sport.
frontofficesports.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:39 AM
i've been telling people for a while that pickelball's ascent is a PE play not organic demand for a professional league, because it's not a good tv sport. frontofficesports.com/how-pickleba...
today in commercials, facebook says that when you get a coworker as a secret santa, stalking their internet presence to figure out what they like rather than just talking to them is truly connecting.
December 20, 2025 at 8:03 PM
today in commercials, facebook says that when you get a coworker as a secret santa, stalking their internet presence to figure out what they like rather than just talking to them is truly connecting.
I didn't realize Discogs was founded in Beaverton by a former Intel guy.
December 20, 2025 at 1:01 AM
I didn't realize Discogs was founded in Beaverton by a former Intel guy.
Only way we're going to prevent synthetic user research from becoming entrenched is to shame its proliferation. Timely read
User researchers already document findings at a faster velocity than orgs can act on them. It strains credulity that tech leaders are clamoring for even more yet worse AI-generated findings.
My new blog post, "The only winning move is not to play."
gregg.io/the-only-win...
My new blog post, "The only winning move is not to play."
gregg.io/the-only-win...
December 19, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Only way we're going to prevent synthetic user research from becoming entrenched is to shame its proliferation. Timely read
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Fact is, I don't want to be looked at by machines
December 19, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Fact is, I don't want to be looked at by machines
Fable or Literal.club neither has anyone on them that I know, the social graph being what it is means you lose all your friends
December 19, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Fable or Literal.club neither has anyone on them that I know, the social graph being what it is means you lose all your friends
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This whole story just makes me think of what will happen with other government services when they become unloved and understaffed and "agentic" BS proliferates.
December 18, 2025 at 11:44 AM
This whole story just makes me think of what will happen with other government services when they become unloved and understaffed and "agentic" BS proliferates.
Suffering through Apple Music's far worse recommendations by using the autoplay feature after whatever I queue up is done, because it's been decent at keeping me listening to what I want to hear. But you're not going to find any rad user generated playlists covering liminal subgenres.
December 18, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Suffering through Apple Music's far worse recommendations by using the autoplay feature after whatever I queue up is done, because it's been decent at keeping me listening to what I want to hear. But you're not going to find any rad user generated playlists covering liminal subgenres.