Tap Out of Polish, Tap Into Devotion
How a plain text email game beat every polished app I've experienced since
Brutally Human
Brutally Human examines how design systems shape behaviour, attention, and power in modern life, and what it takes to design without eroding human agency.
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The Death of BRB
What the death of "BRB" actually tells us about who we became online.
The Slow Disappearance
A hundred small betrayals we all make
The Field Didn't Shrink. You Just Stopped Being Rare.
On craft, differentiation, and the career advice nobody gave you
Invisible Pressure
How financial networks, data, and algorithms replaced the battlefield
Websites That Understand You
The shift from static pages to adaptive content systems
Predictability Is Power
How building systems frees you to focus on meaningful work
Who Actually Builds the Future?
Rethinking power dynamics in venture capital
Systems of Ideological Subversion
On system design, perception, and the slow erosion of coherence
The Year Long Interview
Why efficiency replaced understanding in hiring
The Gap Between Intention and Perception
The story behind SiteCritique and the problem it was built to name.
The Best Design You Never See
How care hides in plain sight
The Click Economy of Design
The slow erosion of design leadership
The Inconvenient Expert
Notes on aging in optimized systems
Priced Out of Being Human
Notes on empathy in a market that rewards extraction
Scale - An Unfortunate Side Effect of Innovation
Neutrality is the most violent design choice of all because it refuses responsibility while executing judgment perfectly.
Removed for Efficiency
A procedural error called being human
What We Choose to Give Shape To
Intentional steps forward
Everything is Designed #010
An impassioned call for VCs to stop treating creators like circus acts and start investing in them as true partners shaping the future.
Everything is Designed #009
Redefining Our Relationship With Time