Hard work isn’t the tax you pay for living, it’s the tuition for a life worth having—your fav gen z philosopher x.

Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps.

Our role as designers, how design should interact with society and what even constitutes design.

The subtle ways in which design tools shape how we think and what we make.

Even good system design advice can be kind of bad.

Even the best weapon is an unhappy tool, hateful to living things.

Why I erased 10,000 notes, 7 years of ideas, and every thought I ever tried to save.

No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.

Why pressing the gas on AI adoption might be the most human thing we can do - or our biggest professional blind spot.

Can AIs be moral patients? If so, what sorts of AIs?

It is a proxy phrase, often born of an inability or unwillingness to articulate other concerns.

Why the world needs more imagination, inspiration and reinvention to make progress.

Turns out the number of jobs for translators and interpreters has actually been increasing.

Why design is care, and how the experiences we shape and deliver will be defined by how people sense that care in the future.

Somewhere in the last few months, something fundamental shifted with autonomous AI coding agents.

Everyone has their favorite definition of life. Here's a good one.

"I took a senior management role at this company six months ago. But it’s just not clicking."

Success is subjective. It means many things to many different people.

Thoughts on the UI paradigm shift Apple just introduced with Liquid Glass.

When machines can generate responses that increasingly resemble thought, thinking for oneself becomes about maintaining our cognitive sovereignty.