As I work on Natural Information Architecture, I’m sharing notes and quotes from my sources of inspiration and provocation. As always, your questions and suggestions are welcome. Ecopsychology (1995) is a collection of essays, edited by Roszak, Gomes, and Kanner, focused on ecopsychology, a new field at the crossroads of ecology and psychology. A PsychologicalKeep reading
Information Anxiety (IA)
As I work on Natural Information Architecture, I’m sharing notes and quotes from my sources of inspiration and provocation. As always, your questions and suggestions are welcome. In Information Anxiety (1989), Richard Saul Wurman explains (on the front cover to reduce the reader’s anxiety) that “information anxiety is produced by the ever-widening gap between whatKeep reading
Categories Are Connections
As I work on Natural Information Architecture, I’m sharing notes and quotes from my sources of inspiration and provocation. As always, your questions and suggestions are welcome. In Surfaces and Essences, Hofstadter and Sander claim that analogy is the core of all thinking, analogies are categories, and categories are mental models that evolve. Without conceptsKeep reading
Mental Models
As I work on Natural Information Architecture, I’m sharing notes and quotes from my sources of inspiration and provocation. As always, your questions and suggestions are welcome. On Intelligence (2005) by Jeff Hawkins was a source of inspiration for my book on the design of paths and goals, Planning for Everything (2018). All our knowledgeKeep reading
Animal Book Club
After a rough start, Animal Book Club in Charlottesville, Virginia is a happy success. I tell our origin story so that you might create an animal book club in your community. Merlin (2025) To begin, we partnered with our public library. Catherine Fae volunteered to co-host. We vigorously promoted our book club via event calendars,Keep reading