Button 2026 panel: Living our values at work

Earlier this year I was invited to join a panel at Button Conference 2026: Harm reduction in content design: Living our values at work led by David Dylan Thomas. My co-panelists were Ayanfe Adewoye and Amanda Costello, two folks whose work I deeply respect. Though I am no longer working directly in the content design space, I was excited to participate in this conference I’d been following for a few years. I can’t share the recording, but I can share the notes I wrote up for the questions that David asked us. I gave some flavor of these answers during our session. Give an examples of times you did (or did not) live your values at work. Give a name to the value in question. My value: We belong to each other. We take care of us, we take care of our users. At the end of the day, it’s just work - and we go home to our human lives. The institution don’t care. The institution won’t reward you for bending the knee. My wife’s experiences with institutional betrayal and the collective fawning…