On being a designer in the most interesting, exhausting moment of our careers
Prioritizing mental clarity over speed to maintain high craft standards.
Prioritizing mental clarity over speed to maintain high craft standards.
On quitting, the spread of AI, and the loss of an ideal.
We’ll need to redefine what productivity means in the context of humans. If we don’t, we’re all kind of screwed, and yes, AI will take our jobs away.
462+ sources, one pattern: AI adoption is accelerating, productivity is climbing, and jobs are changing faster than they’re disappearing.
What determines whether someone is capable of relatively quickly acquiring expert-level performance in other domains?
The real edge comes from pairing judgment with context, stakes, and the willingness to build.
When effort stems from purpose, agency, and trust, rather than oversight.
There’s a question that never goes away in design: should designers code?
You’re using AI to be more productive. So why are you more exhausted than ever? The paradox every engineer needs to confront.
On AI agents, grunt work, and the part of science that isn’t replaceable.
Trying to define Design Engineering today, and why the confusion around it turned out to matter.
Something has shifted in the way the design field operates, and we haven’t yet found the words or identified the exact schema for it.
Calculate, visualize, and compare taxes across countries. See how your income is taxed with interactive charts and insights.
Executives have always had to deal with non-determinism, while individual contributors are evaluated by their execution on deterministic tasks.
The idea of AI replacing product designers isn’t scaring me. It’s actually having the opposite effect: I’m embracing it.
An entire generation of designers climbed the ladder. A third say it got better. A third say it got worse. A third aren’t sure.
A rare, honest roadmap through the industry’s noise.
Why senior leadership hinges on decision-making quality over raw output.