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.

Our role as designers, how design should interact with society and what even constitutes design.

Even good system design advice can be kind of bad.

The most promising path forward probably involves different groups working on different strategies simultaneously.

Nobody’s slowing the train down now.

LLM “reasoning” is so cooked they turned Gary Marcus' name into a verb.

Interactive visualization of technological history.

Restoring an IBM 2168 and maxing out DOOM.

How can you finish things in a world where you can keep improving systems indefinitely?