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This is a short story about a hat and a will that I wrote during our February Not Residency week. Once, in a city a little gloomier than most, there was a man who wore his will as a hat. When he took his will to the hatmakers's the hatmaker said with a questioning tone, "A will, as a hat, what a novel idea!". To which the man replied, "Not a novel. That would be much too large. I want you to make…
Coaching I'm taking a Coaching class this week. My friend T at work took it and I respect T and the journey she is on, so it felt that there was something here for me. I'm planning on some big changes in the next few years. I've had some big changes in the last year. Those changes excite me and also, I am a planner. This is a way to dream forward, while I am, by strategic choice, holding still.…
When L's headphones stopped working, her boyfriend gave her his back up pair. He warned her that if he ever lost his primary pair, then he would need them back. Two years later, he did and so the headphones floated back out of her life. She didn't buy new ones. "I figured they'd find me, when I needed them," she explained with a toss of her long braid. One day, she was visiting friends when one of…
We are sitting on the porch, talking about the future. Through the trees, silver light was winking off the lake. Alayna said that she believes in fate––thinks about it like a wave, the swelling of environment and interaction––so its cresting and its crash are an inevitability. It could not have been any other way. In that moment, I thought, instead, of a delta. Destinies branching and spreading in…
My friend J gave me the book "Laziness Does Not Exist" for a wedding present. I'm more ready for that book now, than I would have been ten years ago. To illustrate this, let me tell you an anecdote. At some point in college, I had a website idea for an "ideal human website". On this website you could put in all the traits you thought an ideal human might have as a kind of aspirational goal. NOTE:…
At work, I've been doing a lot of thinking about how to bring LLMs into a design process (by day I am a UX designer). I've been doing this because it feels like we are on the edge of a large shift in the way my job and jobs like mine work. It is also intellectually engaging and frankly fun to zoom out and think about the meta process of design and how LLMs might support or transform it. Getting on…
I am experiencing despair and joy entwined. I'm getting married in a little over a month (surprise). Because my partner and I have many people we love, in many places, we're celebrating with a train of events that begins in late June and ends early next year with stops in California, New York (details to come!), and India. I thought it wouldn't matter. I had thought getting engaged wouldn't…
The coop I live in has been in Downtown Brooklyn for 16 years. Over the years the neighborhood has transformed from three story buildings to a corn maze of skyscrapers (CC the Eye of Sauron). The house has stood through 4 presidential terms, a financial crisis, Hurricane Sandy, and the Covid pandemic. The original coopers were biking through an Occupy-era Brooklyn when they saw a for rent sign in…
I'm working on an application for the Processing Foundation's Fellowship this year. The theme is Data Storytelling at it feels too aligned with where my head has been this last few years ( ) to not apply. Also in the spirit of APPLY TO EVERYTHING (hat tip to Taeyoon). I recognize that at this moment, this application feels like an insurmountable task, like staring up from the valley to the crags…
I was walking to my boyfriend's house in the rain when I walked by my favorite cellar door. To maximize space in a tight city, restaurants and stores in NYC have basement/cellars which are accessible through trap doors set into the sidewalk. They open out, but still, every time I step on one I feel the queasiness you get at the edge of a cliff, knowing how close you are from free fall. This is my…