How the cause for the global decline in intelligence could be attributed to the fact that we now get to carry this box in our pocket.

Dismantling a culture that idolizes privately owned tech as a method of social progress.

What set of extractions, agencies and resources allow us to converse online with a text-generating tool or to obtain images in a matter of seconds?

Maturity means emotional regulation – not absence or denial of emotion, but regulation.

When design to reduce friction risks eroding human connection.

Reflections on why good judgment outlasts tools, and simplicity always wins.

We’ve been in “FAANG architecture by default” hell for a while now.

Loosely there are two visions for the future of how we interact with computers.

Why Waymo’s robotaxis are probably safer than ChatGPT.

An archive of historical technological pessimism.

Here’s a thought experiment for pondering the effects AI might have on society: What if we invented teleportation?

What if most of the benefit from successful technology change doesn’t come from the technology at all?

Thinking in terms of legibility and illegibility explains so many of the things that are confusing about large software companies.

With every new technology platform, the concept of an application shifts. Now with AI it's happening again.

The fundamental design challenge, then, is not just about creating useful software. It’s about designing for ephemerality.

Large publicly traded tech companies seem to no longer consider their customers. The focus has instead turned towards the stock price.

A preliminary taxonomy of system design principles distilled from several domains in computer systems.

Comparing secure messaging apps from a security & privacy point of view.

SVGs are one of the most remarkable technologies we have access to on the web.

A story of early Mac settings told by 10 emulators.