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Architecture Amplifies, It Doesn't Discover

A follow-up to The Coworker Metaphor Isn't a Blueprint. If metaphor wins the next system, priors win the output of the current one. A six-round sprint run alone surfaced the gap between what an amplifier architecture can produce and what a single post-run question can.

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The Coworker Metaphor Isn't a Blueprint

A year after arguing AI works best as an amplifier rather than a collaborator, an NHH executive sprint put the distinction under pressure. The metaphor and the architecture drifted apart — and that gap matters.

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The Software Metaphors for Simple Living

Why constraint-thinking from app design might be the clearest language for intentional life. Translating Derek Sivers, Seth Godin, and Martha Beck into software terms.

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On Learning with AI and the New Shape of Expertise

AI doesn't make us stupid. Thoughtlessness does. The tool isn't the problem—the question is whether we use it to think more clearly or avoid thinking altogether.

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Desire Paths: Why Your New Year's Resolutions Should Follow Where You Actually Walk

It's mid-November. In six weeks, millions will make resolutions powered by pure willpower. By February, most will have failed—not from lack of discipline, but because they're solving a design problem with the wrong tool.

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The Life Reset That Actually Sticks: Designing for Change Instead of Fighting for It

Most life resets fail within weeks. Not because you lack discipline, but because you're trying to willpower your way through a design problem. Here's how to build change that lasts.

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Why DigTek Doesn't Use Social Media

An honest look at why a small app company chooses to stay off social media platforms, and the paradoxes that come with that decision.

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Digital Influence Networks: The Architecture of Modern Connection

Exploring how digital influence operates through interconnected systems and the emerging patterns of network-based communication.

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Eleven Apps Later: When Constraint Philosophy Meets Creative Reality

A reflection on reaching 11 apps while preaching constraint - why sometimes the constraint that matters most is knowing when to stop.

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Cybernetic Amplification: A Counter-Narrative to AI Productivity Paradox

Why my AI-assisted summer of building 8 apps challenges conventional wisdom about AI reducing productivity in deep work.

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Why Pay for Apps? A Defense of One-Time Purchases in the Subscription Era

In a world of monthly charges and data harvesting, the simple act of buying software has become radical. Why we choose pay once, own forever.

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The Constraint Paradox: Why DigTek Has 8 Apps (And Why That's Actually Consistent)

A thoughtful examination of the apparent contradiction between preaching constraint while building eight different apps.

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