Chains of Snowflakes
I started a hundred-day making streak. Then I spent two days researching whether streaks actually work. This went about as well as you'd expect.
David Nuñez — a public explorer of emerging futures
I build little pieces of the future to probe what they mean: experiments, speculative artifacts, and field notes from the seam where technology meets being human.
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Oh, Look, There's Nana's Painting
My niece just earned her degree in cybersecurity, so of course, I had to give her an encrypted hard drive filled w/ 1337 h4x0r media and some incoherent ramblings for her to decipher. Told her to start w/ WarGames (1983), Hackers (1995), Sneakers (1992) then Primer (2004) and just binge
Skating on a Little Lake of Ink
I'm spending the week at FAB26 , the Fab Lab network's annual gathering, camped out at MIT with several hundred people who own more laser cutters than shoes. I'll send around my conference thoughts next week. Signals Worth Tracking The man who invented the metaverse
Every Fake You See Is for Real
Tom Cruise promised you real jets, not CGI. You got both. "Everything you see is for real," went the Top Gun: Maverick marketing. Danish VFX supervisor Jonas Ussing examined the finished film and found CGI jets nearly everywhere , then kept going for four more videos covering Oppenheimer , Mission:
Work Harder, Not Smarter
I gave the assistant that runs my calendar the power to refuse me until I name a reason. Turns out the obstacle is the feature: learning science, behavioral economics, and HCI all drew the same line between friction that works for you and friction that works on you.
It's Not the Fake, It's the Lie
A band with no humans in it, an actress who doesn't exist, a five-star write-up sitting on a hundred food-poisoning complaints. The machine isn't the scandal. The unlabeled swap is.
The Log Is Fake
I lost twenty minutes to a website that lets you chop firewood, and it handed me something my work keeps withholding: a finished pile.
Nobody Can Draw a Bicycle
A spider, a fake FBI town, and a bicycle built for AI.
I Built a Robot to Read My Mind and Believed It Anyway.
I trusted a tool I made to tell me what mattered, until it disagreed with itself over a single misplaced space. A field guide to the confident outputs worth checking twice.
I was looking for a Nigel I could download
I wanted Nigel from Devil Wears Prada to walk into my bedroom. What showed up was a pile of apps and a piece of cardboard.
A Meteor Fell and I Couldn't Find the Crowd
A meteor boom over Boston, a real-time town square that had quietly fragmented into a hundred private instruments, and why the fastest civic response in 2026 is to build the answer instead of post it. Plus Watch Duty, a 48-hour moving model, and someone in a blueberry-muffin costume.
The Card Apple Would Rather You Not Use
Why digital-first wallets still mail you a piece of metal.
The Pocket Test
A field guide for naming what your phone is actually doing on a walk. Five answers, one honest question.
Some apps want you to go outside.
On the small genre of software that uses the screen as a door, not a wall.
My calendar lied to me, and I have only myself to blame
A small operational fire, followed by the four-jobs question I now ask every tool in my stack. Plus: pilot logbooks, an inaccurate-planning study from UCL, and Andy Matuschak on bending software around real life.