Taking a photograph is a moment; making one is a process — and automation can quietly move the authorship out of your hands by being good at it. On the two verbs, and why the difference matters even if it matters to no one but me.
Read the articleThe daguerreotype was met with the same two objections now meeting language models — profane and mere. Neither got photography right then. The move underneath them is what matters now.
Read articleThe discourse around AI and skill atrophy assumes the person at the keyboard had the lower skill to begin with. From the position of someone who never had it, the worry locates the loss in the wrong place.
Read articleA 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.
Read articleA 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.
Read articleWhy constraint-thinking from app design might be the clearest language for intentional life. Translating Derek Sivers, Seth Godin, and Martha Beck into software terms.
Read articleAI 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.
Read articleIt'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.
Read articleMost 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.
Read articleAn honest look at why a small app company chooses to stay off social media platforms, and the paradoxes that come with that decision.
Read articleExploring how digital influence operates through interconnected systems and the emerging patterns of network-based communication.
Read articleA reflection on reaching 11 apps while preaching constraint - why sometimes the constraint that matters most is knowing when to stop.
Read articleWhy my AI-assisted summer of building 8 apps challenges conventional wisdom about AI reducing productivity in deep work.
Read articleIn a world of monthly charges and data harvesting, the simple act of buying software has become radical. Why we choose pay once, own forever.
Read articleA thoughtful examination of the apparent contradiction between preaching constraint while building eight different apps.
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