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Writing on design, technology, AI tools, and creative practice.

Holding Stories Others Refuse to Remember

Holding Stories Others Refuse to Remember

Some people relate to us as though parts of our lives are placeholders—as if they never happened, as if those roles held no significance. How does one play the part in that involuntary theatre? How do...

Secret Gardens Within Public Parks

Secret Gardens Within Public Parks

Imagine a vast public park in a city somewhere. Scores of individuals somehow maintain secret personal gardens within this huge public park. They've established relationships with specific plants, wat...

Rationing Oxygen Across Too Many Chambers

Rationing Oxygen Across Too Many Chambers

Very few of us think about what children need. Many lack time or motivation because we don't consider it important. Yet this might be the single most important thing parents could do. But most parents...

A Telephone Directory That Thinks It's a Community

A Telephone Directory That Thinks It's a Community

We've built a world where your LinkedIn connection count functions like a credit score for relevance. Five hundred connections makes you credible. Five thousand makes you influential. Fifty makes you ...

Ethics as Architecture, Not Opinion

Ethics as Architecture, Not Opinion

We treat ethics as opinion when we should recognise it as architecture. If I say "murder is wrong," you don't reply "that's your perspective." Yet when someone says "killing sentient beings for pleasu...

Drivers Who Don't Know Where They Want to Go

Drivers Who Don't Know Where They Want to Go

We have many vehicles on the streets of our cities, but many vehicles have drivers who don't know where they want to go. They are not just confused

What If Mirrors Showed Cognitive Blind Spots

What If Mirrors Showed Cognitive Blind Spots

Imagine if every mirror in your home became a disruption screen - not reflecting your face but your cognitive blind spots. Not the spinach between your teeth, but the assumptions calcifying in your wo...

The Body Speaks in Dialect Requiring Translation

The Body Speaks in Dialect Requiring Translation

We persistently misread the mind-body connection as predictive mechanism rather than diagnostic instrument—as though emotional patterns generate illnesses through mechanical causality. Like expecting ...

Unity Arises from Bandwidth, Not Essence

Unity Arises from Bandwidth, Not Essence

You inhabit one brain, experiencing one continuous stream of "you." This seems inevitable—consciousness bound to a single skull like a river confined to its bed. Yet what creates this unity? Two hundr...