WURKIT • Dan Ritz

For my RSS homies.

For my RSS homies.

For my RSS homies.

I decided to switch away from NetNewsWire for various personal/political reasons I don’t feel like expanding on here.

On Writing Well is a fun book.

A system is not the sum of its parts.

iA Writer is what I use when I have a somewhat structured idea in mind and want to flesh it out.

This conversation on Design Theory and Philosophy with Erik Stolterman is a wonderful anchoring to what design is about.

The Design Way is my favorite design book.

The beautiful game Sable has a wonderful soundtrack.

The Death and Life of Great American Cities is one of my favorite “systems thinking” books.

Is Ipanema eight two-minute songs, or one sixteen-minute song?

This Totebook has maintained favorite notebook status for a few years now.

Feelings are Facts: Love, Privacy, and the Politics of Intellectual Shame is a fascinating talk about technology and privacy that powerfully weaves in a metaphor of love as a “mess making” force that changes our relationship with our environment.

Impro is a fun, clear, and informative book about topics that are hard to pin down: creativity and spontaneity.

How to Do Action Comedy is one of my favorite short lectures on combining skills (as a generalist) and the organizational costs of quality and attention to detail.

Bottomless bass is a good way to describe Days Gone By.

I had a colleague who used to always say that you need a 30 second, 3 minute, and 30 minute explanation for everything you want people around you to care about.

All Care, No Responsibility by Cameron Tonkinwise is one of my favorite design talks and has one of my favorite shorthand phrases for what design means to me.

Brand New by UnderConsideration is my favorite paid newsletter for deep dive critiques on new branding projects.

How Buildings Learn is a fascinating book exploring ways buildings are designed to endure a longer arc of change.

An Answer For Everything was put to the side of my desk when it came in the mail over a year ago.

Panopad is my favorite sketching and wire-framing pad.

Bike is where I untangle my raw thoughts and begin to make sense of the world around me.

August, 2025 — I decided to switch away from NetNewsWire for various personal/political reasons I don’t feel like expanding on here.

The entire Hijos del Sol album is the chillest of chill mix of ambient latin and western music.