Auracast Bluetooth Speaker v2
More Bluetooth (hardware) shenanigans
Filippo Sanzeni
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On Shrinking Pies
On bottlenecks, abundance-as-scarcity, and why the AI slop era might finally force us to think in theories.
On Fading Magic
On how sufficiently advanced technology stops being magic once we understand it, and why moving our understaning from magic to mundane matters.
On Nostalgia
Mark Carney says nostalgia isn’t a strategy, but we’re all drowning in it anyway - from transparent phones to deglobalised supply chains. A personal reflection on why we can’t stop looking backward when the present feels unbearable, and why it won’t save us.
On Expectation Tension
A look at how organisations are held together less by purpose and more by the tensions between what they promise and what they can actually sustain.
On Surface Area
Why innovation strategies optimise themselves into stagnation, and what circulation between failures could unlock instead.
On The RAM Chokepoint
How a three-player memory oligopoly, AI’s HBM binge, and capex ‘discipline’ turned RAM into a global chokepoint.
On A New Ecology of Tools
Why the quest for AGI misses the point: intelligence was always plural, embodied, and distributed.
On AI and Temporal Arbitrage
Why prioritising market dominance and delayed profits collides with the brute physics of AI computation.
On Supply Chain Fragility
Reflecting on supply chain fragiliy (with examples) && the limits of decentralised manufacturing.
On The Great Reversal
In my latest rabbit hole, I explore whether hardware development has actually become cheaper than software development.
On Designifying AI
OpenAI’s $6.4B acquisition of Jony Ive’s WithLove merges minimalist design with AI surveillance capitalism. A masterclass in enshittification.
On The Paradox of Protectionism
Could blitzkrieg protectionism somehow offer a (tentative) scaffolding for local growth?
About Me
On Overusing Wicked Problems
I’ve got an itch to scratch regarding wicked problems and how often they can be an excuse for inaction.
On "Piracy for Me, not for Thee"
LLMs, institutionalised piracy and other good things all add up to slop. Let’s dissect Meta’s latest blunder.
On The Innovator Myth
A deep dive, spurred by recent events (Deepseek, wink wink), on the different mental frameworks of innovation between the West and East. Yes, I’m simplifying.
On Tariffs and Globalisation
Tariffs have been a useful tool for protectionism. Up the 1920s. Perhaps today things are a little more complicated.
On Hardware Enshittification
A notoriusly good 3D printer manufacturer decided to alienate their customer base by pushing unnecessarily restrictive firmware updates.
On Risk Homeostasis
Jump into my latest rabbit hole: risk homeostasis theory, or, why we can rethink risk in strategy (and software development).
Auracast Bluetooth Speaker
Trials and tribulations in developing a Bluetooth speaker ecosystem.
On Institutional Inertia
How the pirates of Monkey Island can teach us about organisational inertia, or, why companies do not like change so much.
From the cDc to Design Futures
Personal reflection on how hacking culture and Futures work are connected via a punch thrown back in the day.
F91W Log 1
Working on the power circuitry of a re-designed Casio F91W, now with wireless charging.
Artificial Agency
What if the algorithm would prevent the user from performing certain actions which are deemed unlayful or unethical?
DIY Bioacoustics
Open source sensor/service for preemptive detection of pests in crops.
OCCHIO
A possible methodology on approaching the unknown unknowns, namely, future wicked problems.
Future Forecasting: A Handbook for the Designer
Who gives the designer the moral high ground to decide other people’s lives?