Thinking about AI

Thinking about AI

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been dabbling my way through this pretty mess of building with tools like Manus.ai, Vercel, Cursor, ChatGPT, and Claude (vibe coding, as some people distastefully call it). Here are a few thoughts I’ve had about how AI is reshaping the way we create…

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been dabbling my way through this pretty mess of building with tools like Manus.ai, Vercel, Cursor, ChatGPT, and Claude..

Not Double Diamond, the real one

Not Double Diamond, the real one

First things first Double Diamond is more of an intention than a real process. It’s a mirage, a very zoomed-out view of how design happens. So zoomed out that all the irregularities smoothen out into clean phases. The closer you get to real teams, real systems, and real timelines, the more…

First things first Double Diamond is more of an intention than a real process. It’s a mirage, a very zoomed-out view of how design happens. So zoomed out that all the irregularities smoothen out into clean phases. The closer ...

Doing things that keep you sane

Doing things that keep you sane

Let’s get this straight: not all of our happiness and sadness comes from our internal locus. It’s the circumstances we are entangled in and the people we care about that inexorably steer a significant part of an adult’s life.It can be a financial crisis within the family, ill health of a loved one, regular toxic…

Let’s get this straight: not all of our happiness and sadness comes from our internal locus. It’s the circumstances we are entangled in and the people we care about that inexorably steer a significant part of an adult’s life.It can be a financial crisis within..

Yes, I have two personalities

Yes, I have two personalities

Every morning, I wake up as two people. One gets to work on time, texts back with the right amount of energy, and knows exactly how to behave in every room. The other stays a few steps behind, observing. He doesn’t always speak. He isn’t built for performance. He lingers in silences..

Every morning, I wake up as two people. One gets to work on time, texts back with the right amount of energy, and knows exactly how to behave in every room. The other stays a few steps behind, observing. He doesn’t always speak. He isn’t built for performance..