studio.zeldman

06/17/2026

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 different instruments and capturing the whole mess on a cassette recorder. Here’s what happened next.

https://zeldman.com/2026/06/17/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 different instruments and capturing the whole mess on a cassette recorder.

06/04/2026

Look back in anchor tags: a partial review of my site’s 31-year visual history before diving into the new design....

https://zeldman.com/2026/06/04/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.

06/01/2026

She’s the Boss.

She is not here to eat. She is here to ensure my compliance....

She is not here to eat. She is here to ensure my compliance.

05/24/2026

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 anxiety—into a single ideological system fueled by pornographic narratives.

https://zeldman.com/2026/05/24/required-reading-the-interracial-cuck-porn-theory-of-everything/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=jetpack_social

05/24/2026

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.

“GIs in Paris” by Floyd Davis. Davis served as a Life Magazine artist during WWII, where he was stationed in Paris, France.

04/20/2026

Maybe I’m special. Or unlucky. But things that supposedly work intuitively for most users tend to fail spectacularly for me.

Maybe I’m special. Or unlucky. But things that supposedly work intuitively for most users tend to fail spectacularly for me. 

04/17/2026

Just for you: a fresh installment of My Glamorous Life.

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 felt like a walk-in oven. Our weirdly yellow back wall light lit the kitchen. The kids must have left it on when they went to bed.

04/15/2026

The Courage to Stop

Brevity was always a discipline. Now it’s a statement....

https://zeldman.com/2026/04/15/the-courage-to-stop/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=jetpack_social

04/10/2026

Too much reality is not what the people want. But, now more than ever, we need to hear it.

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, and most importantly about themselves. Even as Americans grow, for the second time, disillusioned wit...

04/09/2026

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 best project management tool is still a pen, plus the discipline to notice what the machine cannot. Wisdom from Lucas Radke.