: Spend enough time in the dark looking for monsters, and you’ll find you’ve become one.
: Constraints fuel creativity. They also smother embers.
: I hate dealing with salespeople so busy selling, they miss what I’m willing to buy.
: I have an inexplicable compulsion to avoid starting on easy tasks. I realize I may be addicted to …
: Write. Edit. Rewrite. Scrutinize. Doubt. Publish. Cringe.
: Decaf coffee, thick as molasses, boiling over and burning on the bottom of the carafe. Industrial …
: I’ve determined that my insulated coffee tumbler is nothing more than an adult sippy cup. Great …
: Who are design influencers trying to reach when they boast about their AI productivity gains? Is it …
: Doing nothing can be a strategy when life comes at you fast. But there’s a difference between riding …
: Catastrophizing at 2 in the morning. Is it because I’m past my half-life or is it a symptom of being …
: So many problems can be avoided by letting people know, early and often, the challenges you are …
: Hey, Claude. How do I create a NATO for UX professionals to defend against the rise of …
: Stop collecting. Start curating.
: Being articulate doesn’t require a collection of words. It requires the discipline to remove the …
: A meticulously planned legacy can never match a legacy earned through action.
: I don’t live in the past because the person I am there embarrasses me.
: I’m confident that Weapons (2025) is a subversive critique of social media influencers and …
: Nothing motivates me faster than hard data. No hemming and hawing over possibilities. Just cold, …
: Biological drivers that took millions of years to evolve can’t adapt fast enough to deal with the …
: In anticipation of the stream of political ads coming from the right, I’m setting up the scaffolding …
: I often confuse the search for meaning with the desire to stay relevant.
: I am updating my AI lexicon and will be replacing the term AI Evangelist with Token Pusher.
: 20 days with no signal. Here is some noise — AI evangelists are not being honest with us or …
: I’ve always struggled with communication—especially when it’s verbal. Yet I never fail to construct …
: Things to get done—in no particular order: Touch grass Repot the plants Build a fancy planter for …
: Today I learned the concept of vagueposting. An argument could be made that my posts follow that …
: We spend hours arguing about fairness without ever defining the terms. Now, before I engage, I ask: …
: I read about a dystopian future led by AI displacement and I worry. Then I remember the engineers …
: It is not my responsibility to solve everyone’s problems. It is my responsibility to treat them with …
: What happens when I stop trying to live my life as if I’m the hero of the story? What if I tried to …
: Every minute spent staring into a screen is another minute of my life handed over to the tech …
: Every six months or so, I log back into the socials to see what’s going on. Within hours, I’m …
: Today is the day I will break through my doom scrolling echo chamber. A digital émigré stepping into …