Speaking through interfaces
20 terminal panes. 5 agents per project. Infinite research reports and ASCII diagrams. My agents have a lot to say to me — they just need a better way to say it.
Read moreTechnology changes everything.
So does deciding who you want to be.
I write about both.
Inspiration, move me brightly
The best moments playing music are when your soul just knows what to do. I've been trying to build technology that feels like that — and a 16-year-overdue conversation with Brad Frost is where it all clicked
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Everything just gets built
Licklider said 85% of his thinking time was spent getting into position to think. Ten years ago I said designers shouldn't have to drag rectangles. Now? Ideas go in and prototypes come out. Everything just gets built.
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I Don’t Miss Code (and Inventing Things Isn’t Going Anywhere)
I run on energy and sparkles. The specific cruelty of the old way wasn't just that it was slow — it was draining. Here's what changed.
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Set Aside Your Kryptonite
It's giving end of the training montage. The LinnDrums & Junos fade — the heroine emerges. She knows what to do, even if she was recently doubting her powers.
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Dancing with the wind: a reintroduction
The fundamental duality that runs through my life: artist and technologist, human and machine, sacred and profane. This is what it looks like to dance with the wind instead of against it.
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Threading the Needle
The satisfying sound of my fabric scissors cutting through a beautiful material. So much of the peace in my life recently has come from fiber arts — and I think that means something.
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As We May Learn
In about 3 months it's going to be unfathomable that for the entirety of the holocene, knowledge was transferred in ways other than the best way for each individual to learn.
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Escaping the Labyrinth
Computers as we know them are impossibly distracting. Focus blockers are like having your hand caught in a table saw and asking for a bandaid. What if the whole paradigm is wrong?
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A Perfect Circle
I tripped, fell down a rabbit hole, and unexpectedly found myself in some of the most exciting circles I can remember. In every direction: kind, visionary geniuses.
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Conscious Distribution
Streaming is a broken model and I don't want to center my distribution around it. Here's what I'm learning about releasing music independently.
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An Empty Drafts Folder
I'm not afraid of death. But I've been thinking about what it means that all of these ideas are just sitting in a drafts folder, unshared.
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Participation Trophies
DAOs felt abstract until I actually joined one. Circular descriptions about governance didn't click — but building something together did.
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In Praise of Structured Time
When I left my last full-time job I immediately deleted my calendar. Then I learned something unexpected about the freedom I thought I wanted.
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A Meal Cooked With Love
They say you can taste when a meal is cooked with love. The same thing is true of music — and maybe everything we make.
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