Essays & Field Notes on AI, Design, and Building Digital Businesses
Judgment, Not Just Pages
Design systems need people, not just documentation. Neurath X brings typeface design into the agent era. Evaluation, not creation, has become the bottleneck.
Edition #170
Culture Shapes What AI Amplifies
AI amplifies whatever culture you already have, so weak teams just break faster. Plus Calendly's ripple rebrand and Karl Koch's essays as eleven agent skills.
Edition #169
Nobody claps for good
This week asks why artificial intelligence produces forgettable results while human creativity generates memorable failure.
Edition #168

Friction Shapes What Survives
Edition #167
Conviction Over Craft
Edition #166
Taste Over Templates
Edition #165
When Design Frames Problems
Edition #164
Reality Before AI, Taste Before Consensus
Edition #163
Design Systems Are Now Infrastructure for AI
Edition #162
Building agents that hold their secrets
Edition #161
When Agents Write the Design System
Edition #160
When Systems Think Without Designers
Edition #159
Speed Without Discovery
Edition #158


