A Mind of Words’ Own
If language is a technology and every technology is an amputation, what is language amputating us of?
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West-Eastern Times
Linear Systems in a Non-Linear World and the Promise of Teleology
The Great Lifestyle Unbundling
What if our built environments offered us experiences similar to our digital environments? An evenly distributed array of private, social, work and life.
The Internet Society
Public Interest Technology: Questioning the Publicness of Online Spaces
The Mother of All Interfaces
In Need of New Metaphors; Projects That Are Rethinking the Operating System
On Civilizational Dynamics
What if human activity, with energy as its primary matter (love, attention, money), followed the same laws as physics?
The Meta-Creator Economy
When platforms cater better for brands than for people, it's easier to find success creating content about content creation.
Hardship Culture
On the Creative Practice as Survival and How It Might Well Be Our Instinct to Become Obsessed With the Very Thing We Most Need
From Craft to Management
Why Do All Careers Eventually Lead to the Withdrawal From One’s Original Craft in Favour of That of Managing People?
Lottocracy and Jelly Beans
Instead of choosing the politicians, what if we chose the policies?
Getting Friendly With are.na
What It Feels Like to Enter a New Online Place
The Factors That Shape the Web
Can Blockchain Technology Replace the Ranking System Behind Search Engines?
Geographies of Mind
"[Imagination is] always accessible like a little Swiss army knife to cut through the fog of reality from time to time."
The Nuance of Our Dualities
How Knowledge Work Has Tied Work to Our Identities
A Game of Give and Take
What Canopy Shyness Can Teach Us About Respect and Freedom
Scientia Potentia Est
What if Knowledge Was Power?
Questioning the Car-First City
What Do We Lose When We Let Cars Win?
What a Post-work Future Can Look Like
"The fields would explode into this brilliant chaos of all our individual purposes."
The Benefits of a Purist Approach to Life
Embracing a Textbook Life to Avoid Decision Fatigue
When Industry Becomes Passion
What Open Source Can Teach Us About Creation and Devotion
Poetics of the City
Sharing Things With Strangers Is Quite Unique to the City
Policymaking as UX Research
If We’re the Users, Citizenhood Is the Experience, and Laws Are the Service, Then Policymakers Are the UX Designers.
Analogies of Time, Space and Thought
The Web Needs to Be Tended to With the Grace and Humility of an Ancient Library
Thoughts on Potential
Potential is my favourite way to look at the world because it's the common denominator of everything that has ever been and ever will be.
Is Beauty Good?
"What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness."
Why I Care About the Internet
The tool that's been shaping us is commerce, but the tool we shaped is this jewel of an infrastructure.
The Word Meraki Shouldn’t Exist
What happens when we put a word on "doing things with love"?
Humanity as Organism
How Synchronized Swimmers, Herds of Sheep and the Ubuntu Philosophy Can Make Us Question Individualism
Design Minus Business
What is design like when she's single?
Against Measuring
What if that which we scrutinize and compare isn't even a part of the world, but rather a mere representation of it?
The Hyper-Complex Use of Language in Activism
What does it mean to steepen the learning curve in those areas that need the most democratization?
The Afterlife Keeps the Score
Are the Choices We Make Really up to Us?
The Greenest Grass
On Quantum Physics and Unlived Lives
All Is Not Lost
What the West Can Learn From Japan’s Societal Eye
Of Brass, Wood & Strings
On the Quantum Vastness Within Musical Instruments
The Good Without The Bad
"When it is understood that trying to have good without evil is as absurd as trying to have white without black, all that energy is released for things that can be done."
Fields of Play
The Difference Between Artistic Competition and Athletic Competition
Not a Bucket List
What Would You Do in the Afterlife?
A Matter Of Words
Distinguishing Curiosity From Creativity
The Game We All Get to Play
On the the Web as a Facilitator of the Passion Economy and the Democratization of Entrepreneurship
What Is a Brand?
On Capitalism’s Anthropomorphic Manifestations
The Future as Time or Place
On Design as a Bridge Between Imagination and Reality
How to Be a (Good) Digital Citizen
10 Best Practices for Proper Internet Citizenhood
The Objects of Self-Care
On the Commodification of Wellness
Necessary Frictions
On the Disproportionate Costs of Convenience
Fixing Tech Won’t Save the World
The (Short) Case Against Technological Determinism
IxD22 One year on, what have we learned?
Learnings and sketchnotes from the 2022 Interaction Week conference
Love & Fear
There Are Only Two Emotions in Life
Before I Was Mine
On Love as the Motive for Existence & Identity
📖 Intertwingled by Peter Morville
Providing examples from the digital to the medical, Peter Morville advocates to transform our tendency to see wholes as the sum of their parts into an awareness of the deep interconnectedness of all things.
In Good Earthly Fashion
Would a World Government Eliminate Culture?
📖 Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener
With a critical eye, Anna Wiener brings us along her experience entering Silicon Valley's tech world where an underlying uncanniness raises cause for concern.
📖 Abolish Silicon Valley by Wendy Liu
Fed-up with the tech industry's anti-social practices, Wendy Liu examines our current economic system's flaws through the lens of technology and proposes a model to reclaim our world from the reign of capital.
A Plot For Higher Grounds
If All Rooftops Were Gardens
The Great Blur
On the Ill-Defined Playground of Big Tech's Foretellers
The One You Feed
On Self-Discovery and the Threat of Algorithms
📖 Living In Information by Jorge Arango
With an approach to interface design inspired by the practice of placemaking, Arango suggests we embrace the collaborative nature of the Web to build generative environments that can stand the test of time.
📖 Why We Work by Barry Schwartz
Highlighting that human nature is designed more than it is discovered, Schwartz urges us to consider how we shape our social institutions.
📖 Sensemaking by Christian Madsbjerg
Educating corporate decision-makers about the subtleties of the humanities and social sciences will future-proof progress for the greater good.
📖 Magic And Loss by Virginia Heffernan
To understand the Internet for what it really is, we need to view it as humanity's continual work of representational art, showcasing digital instances of our activity on Earth. But when everything is magically saved, what gets lost on the way?