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To My Most Talented Friends
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Decentralized Identity
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Finding The Grain
Meaningful projects take sustained effort — but they shouldn't feel like writing a dissertation with a pen that's out of ink. Work with the grain, not against it.
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Roam and Notion couldn't be more different — and that difference maps perfectly to how brains actually work.
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Humans Not Resources
When algorithms can do what you do, being skilled isn't enough. The differentiator is telling compelling stories — of yourself, your work, and what you want to contribute.
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Showcasing the Showcasers
Shaggy's chart-topping hit wasn't supposed to go further than the middle of a forgotten album. One passionate DJ changed that — and there's a lesson in it for all of us.
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In Public; In Service
On most days I write thousands of words, yet publish precious few of them. The Inner Critic has strong opinions about that ratio.
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Crafting Cohesive & Collaborative Spatial Social Software for Patrons' Permanent Pondering
Conferences are weird: paying a bunch of money to sit in a banquet room drinking stale urn coffee. But the hallway conversations — those are where the real design happens.
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Why I am optimistic again
When I became disenchanted with technology in 2018, it shattered a mythology I'd spent my 20s immersed in. It took a while to find a reason to be excited again.
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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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The Evolution of Tools: Towards Design Intelligence
Design tools have traditionally represented design as pixels and rectangles — things that look like the outcome but aren't it. We're finally ready for something smarter.
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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.
Read more
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.
Read more
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.
Read more
A Human-centered Mettaverse
web3 is our chance to cleanly break from everything that went wrong with consumer technology. Or it's a chance to repeat every mistake faster.
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To My Most Talented Friends
I've heard you're bored with making products at corporations to enrich billionaires. Me too. An open letter to my talented friends about what comes next.
Read more
Decentralized Identity
You've seen .eth domains around. They're much bigger than wallet nicknames — they're the beginning of actually owning your identity online.
Read more
Finding The Grain
Meaningful projects take sustained effort — but they shouldn't feel like writing a dissertation with a pen that's out of ink. Work with the grain, not against it.
Read more
Bottom-up Writing
Roam and Notion couldn't be more different — and that difference maps perfectly to how brains actually work.
Read more
Humans Not Resources
When algorithms can do what you do, being skilled isn't enough. The differentiator is telling compelling stories — of yourself, your work, and what you want to contribute.
Read more
Showcasing the Showcasers
Shaggy's chart-topping hit wasn't supposed to go further than the middle of a forgotten album. One passionate DJ changed that — and there's a lesson in it for all of us.
Read more
In Public; In Service
On most days I write thousands of words, yet publish precious few of them. The Inner Critic has strong opinions about that ratio.
Read more
Crafting Cohesive & Collaborative Spatial Social Software for Patrons' Permanent Pondering
Conferences are weird: paying a bunch of money to sit in a banquet room drinking stale urn coffee. But the hallway conversations — those are where the real design happens.
Read more
Why I am optimistic again
When I became disenchanted with technology in 2018, it shattered a mythology I'd spent my 20s immersed in. It took a while to find a reason to be excited again.
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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.
Read more
The Evolution of Tools: Towards Design Intelligence
Design tools have traditionally represented design as pixels and rectangles — things that look like the outcome but aren't it. We're finally ready for something smarter.
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