A new year begins the way the old one ended—with work happening in the background, updates brewing, and a book revision waiting patiently.
Read the articlePrinted my own book. Started revising it. The irony of doing book maintenance during supposed "winter mode" is not lost on me.
Read articleTending, not building. Six apps updated in two weeks—not with big features, but with the quiet craft of vedlikehold.
Read articleReading goals, color-coded books, better stats. The kind of update others charge for. Three months after launch, here's what's new.
Read articleAfter months of hints, here's some of what we've been building behind the scenes: nine macOS apps built as tools for ourselves and what such a process reveals.
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 the 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 the articleThe rainbow problem isn't that AI-generated text exists—it's thinking we can solve accountability through color-coding rather than developing judgment about when to use tools and when to think for ourselves.
Read the articleOn what happens when a podcast about AI risk is made with AI, and why that's both ironic and instructive. A reflection on transparency, alignment problems in practice, and taking responsibility for human-AI collaboration.
Read the articleOn entering a fallow season. Time for doing, time to rest. Shifting from expansion to maintenance mode as winter arrives—and the wisdom of seasonal adjustment.
Read the articleOn letting patterns reveal themselves instead of trying to fix what you haven't yet understood. The attention economy trains us to optimize immediately—but what if noticing is more powerful than fixing?
Read the articleOn the search for the right place to exist, and the realization that maybe the answer was here all along. A reflection on owning your platform and staying true to your values.
Read the articleOn small shifts, two different paths toward meaningful change, and letting your heart guide you.
Read articleThere's a growing number of people quietly stepping away from attention-capture systems. Not loudly. Not dramatically. Just... leaving.
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 articleWhat happens when you apply software design principles to life — with honesty about what fails. A new book from DigTek Press.
Read articleAn honest look at the choices we make about data, attention, and the peculiar challenge of being invisible by design
Read articleExploring how influence operates through interconnected systems and the emerging patterns of network-based communication.
Read articleA reflection on reaching our final milestone while preaching constraint — why sometimes the constraint that matters most is knowing when to stop
Read articleExperimental tools built for an audience of one that teach lessons valuable to many
Read articleHow my AI-assisted summer of building 8 apps could challenge the claim about AI reducing productivity in deep work.
Read articleThe first family tree app built specifically for Norwegian families - making genealogy accessible with proper terminology and mobile-first design.
Read articleA thoughtful examination of the apparent contradiction between preaching constraint while building eight different apps.
Read articleIn our hyper-connected world, the challenge isn’t finding productivity apps — it’s finding focus amidst the noise.
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Read articleHow a Norwegian technologist with basic HTML skills built a mini app suite in one summer...
Read articleHow Apple uses limitation as a design tool and what it means for building thoughtful technology...
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Read articleYour working memory is beautiful, powerful, and limited. MemoryAnchor is designed around that truth...
Read articleA developer's confession about why my own app was more necessary than I thought. At 22:11 today, I had a working beta of FocusAnchor in test.. At 22:26 I had already started planning five new apps...
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