Essays & Field Notes on AI, Design, and Building Digital Businesses
Friction Shapes What Survives
Constraints that slow us down filter which ideas survive and force deeper thought.
Edition #167
Conviction Over Craft
Polish is now free. As AI handles execution, designers face a reckoning: conviction and taste are all that's left to signal real skill.
Edition #166
Taste Over Templates
Designers feed Claude sensory prompts instead of design files. Agents learn to critique like humans through structured workflows. Personal tools now beat scalable platforms.
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
When Description Becomes the Bottleneck
Edition #157
Personal Branding Won't Save Your Thinking
Edition #156
AI, Agents, and What Developers Actually Do Now
Edition #155