Thank you to everyone for your energy and enthusiasm in joining this adventure with me so far!

Book announcement: with Melissa Valentine, we are publishing "Flash Teams: Leading the Future of AI-Enhanced, On-Demand Work." It's a leadership book synthesizing a decade of Stanford research on how computing, online platforms, and AI reshape teamwork. Coming October from @mitpress.bsky.social!

Problematic incentives for faculty parking

Big congratulations to @helenasresearch.bsky.social on winning a 2025 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award! cra.org/about/awards...

Palo Alto public phone chassis replaced by an open book exchange. Love it.

If you don't like our 2x3 space, there's also a full 62-dimension treatment in the appendix from our inductive process, as well as a set of 11 categories those fall into. They're more useful for fine-grained distinctions.

Form-From asks two questions: (1) What is the principal shape, or form, of the content: either threaded or flat? (2)~From where or from whom one might receive content, ranging from spaces to networks to the commons?

So just what is this thing? It's been a long time since CSCW introduced Johansen's Time-Space matrix, and at this point a vast majority of social media would fall into the different time - different place quadrant, making it not very productive as a design or theory tool.

One of my favorite little investigations was coding all the systems listed in a Wikipedia social media timeline (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timelin...) as of when they launched with Form-From. The pattern weaves back and forth between flat systems and threaded systems over time.

What unifies, and what distinguishes, social media designs? Are all the Twitter spinoffs actually meaningfully different designs from each other? Form-From is a design space from @axz.bsky.social, myself, @karger.bsky.social, and Mark Ackerman that will appear at #cscw2024: arxiv.org/abs/2402.05388

Good thing, too.