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New Jul 29, 2026
A Permanent Home
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 has arrived. First, it was social media li...
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New Jul 24, 2026
You lost me at “infielder.”
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 idea, try wrapping it in Wendy Carlos’s secrets of...
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New Jul 21, 2026
The name of this LP is “Side One.”
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, hip-hop, funk, jazz, 19th Century Romantic cl...
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New Jul 11, 2026
Stalin decided what was good science. Millions starved.
What happens when leaders choose political expediency over science? The post Stalin decided what was good science. Millions starved. appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents....
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New Jul 8, 2026
The Secret
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 partners and I had to shut down organizations we and lo...
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New Jul 6, 2026
Memories Can’t Wait—or, How I Learned to Keep Worrying About the Web
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...
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New Jul 3, 2026
The End
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 failure. No autopsy was performed. Morrison was 27. A...
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New Jul 2, 2026
The Human Story of the Open Web
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 vanishes, flushing their collective memories aw...
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New Jun 17, 2026
Underdubbed
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 my dad’s reel-to-reel, then live overdubbing on...
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New Jun 4, 2026
Remembrance of zeldman.coms past
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...
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New Jun 1, 2026
She’s the Boss.
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....
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New May 24, 2026
Required reading: “The Interracial Cuck Porn Theory of Everything”
Cameron Cummins-Smith’s grand unifying theory connects the far right’s seemingly disparate obsessions—from trans panic and great replacement theory to anti-feminism and white birth-rate an...
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New May 24, 2026
Lest we forget
“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 forg...
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New Apr 20, 2026
My UX Superpower: Nothing Works!
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, journalism, advertising, and music, I po...
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New Apr 17, 2026
Pete’s Presence
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 and kitchen was like a walk-in oven. A weirdly ye...
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New Apr 15, 2026
The Courage to Stop
Brevity was always a discipline. Now it’s a statement. The post The Courage to Stop appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents....
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New Apr 10, 2026
Jimmy Carter was right
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 failings, about the reality of the world around them, an...
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New Apr 9, 2026
Handwritten notes in the time of AI note takers
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...