Design Is How It Tastes
If our design specs only tell models what the interface is made of, they have already forgotten what the interface is for
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A collection of 8 posts
Nonspecific Amplification
The stories we tell about technology don't describe reality: they create it. The question isn't where AI is going — it's where we're pointing it.
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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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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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Breadcrumbs & Rabbit Holes with Roam
Roam is the only tool I've found that fits my ADHD brain like a glove — capturing as fast as I can think, leaving breadcrumbs for a future self to follow.
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