CTA hierarchy in the wild
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
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All CategoriesAI and the Next Economy
The narrative from the AI labs is dazzling: build AGI, unlock astonishing productivity, and watch GDP surge.
The Intelligence Curse
This series examines the incoming crisis of human irrelevance and provides a map towards a future where people remain the masters of their destiny.
The enshittifinancial crisis
The horrifying result of 15+ years of steering the tech industry away from solving actual problems in pursuit of eternal growth.
On factory tours
How factory tours connect people to how things are made, despite rising barriers.
Comparing interviews at 8 large tech companies
In three months, Puneet did more than 60 interviews at 11 companies, including Google, Uber, Amazon, Atlassian, and others.
Original work is now an endangered species
When everything looks the same, being different becomes valuable again.
Why is everything so scalable?
We’ve been in “FAANG architecture by default” hell for a while now.
Why designers abandoned their dreams of changing the world
Design was once seen as a tool to improve lives — but as modernism has become marketing, that sense of social purpose has drifted away.
Should designers be paid the same as engineers?
People aren’t remunerated based on knowledge or effort, but on how much value they generate, protect, or multiply—plus accountability.
What could have been
Even if we manage to snap out of the AI bubble, we are never going to get these years back.
On being haunted by my corporate software past
The kind of software that generates heaps of money but nobody involved is happy with: not the people writing it and not the people using it.
The specialization of app gen platforms
The world of AI app generation isn’t winner-take-all. There’s space for multiple breakout companies, each carving out its own niche.
Whose job is safe from AI?
As artificial intelligence becomes ever more capable, is any job secure?
The product design talent crisis
Why we should invest in the next generation of product designers.
The rise of the designer as influencer
Designers are no longer just making work; they are the work. But what started as promotion now risks swallowing design itself.
How to avoid that your post about AI helps the hype
If we’re not cautious, we may accidentally feed the AI hype by talking about it in specific ways.
Hypercapitalism and the AI talent wars
The AI talent wars challenge the shared trust and mission that aligned founders, employees, and investors.
Machines of faithful obedience
In the next decade, AI progress will be extremely rapid, and such periods of sharp transition can be risky.