August 2, 2026 · 10 min read
Who Gets to Remain Complicated?
Othering begins when a category arrives before a person. Forms, media, design research and AI can all compress a life until the label starts to look like the truth.
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Artificial Intelligence
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July 29, 2026 · 3 min read
AI Makes Organizational Mess Executable
AI does not merely inherit an organization’s confused files, labels and policies. It turns that confusion into answers, decisions and actions.
July 29, 2026 · 8 min read
My Screenshots Know About the Life I Almost Lived
Photographs record the life I lived. Screenshots preserve the larger field of possibilities around it: unfinished intentions, recurring obsessions, abandoned futures and the changing shape of my attention.
July 27, 2026 · 9 min read
The Copy Button Is Missing
Language models can reason through difficult problems and still corrupt a string while copying it. The failure reveals where AI products need deterministic software, visible provenance and a harness around the model.
July 21, 2026 · 11 min read
Seventy-One Labs, Seventy-One Different Futures
A map of AI labs starts as a comparison of models and headcounts, then turns into a question about which parts of knowledge, work, culture, science, and physical reality each institution wants to own.
July 14, 2026 · 9 min read
The Lesson Is Cheap. The Sequence Is the Product.
When AI can generate and reformat a polished lesson in seconds, the scarce part of learning becomes deciding what should happen next.
July 14, 2026 · 8 min read
The Interface as an Archaeological Site
A Garmin watch that can measure almost everything still cannot understand an interruption. What a missing pause state reveals about feature accumulation, product models, and AI-era usability debt.
July 14, 2026 · 8 min read
Hiring AI Agents for Culture Fit
As AI agents begin acting inside companies, technical capability is no longer enough. Their real fit appears in the choices they make when instructions are incomplete and values conflict.
July 14, 2026 · 13 min read
Executable Drafts
AI has made software cheap enough to become a draft: a working question, experiment, or argument that can encounter reality before it becomes a product.
July 14, 2026 · 12 min read
Innovation Is a Raw Draft
Large language models do not need to invent from nothing to contribute to innovation. Their real value may be expanding the field of drafts that people can notice, test, and develop.
July 14, 2026 · 14 min read
The Infinite Canvas Is No Longer the Hard Part
AI can now generate a convincing real-time board quickly. The product-management challenge is preserving meaning as ideas become designs, tasks, and commitments across systems.
July 13, 2026 · 8 min read
Software for One Afternoon
AI coding makes it reasonable to build small, temporary tools around a single creative problem, then discard them when the work is done.