The burden of precision
Explore how design tools impose unrealistic perfection, hindering creativity and innovation in today's design landscape. Embrace imperfection for better...
Design tools today confine us to an unrealistic and ill-advised goal: one of perfection. Tools like Photoshop and Sketch are highly precise, and demand precise output from Designers….
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Why customer tools are organized wrong
This article reveals a fundamental flaw in how customer support tools are designed—organizing by interaction type instead of by customer—and explains why this fragmentation wastes time and obscures the full picture you need to help users effectively.
Infrastructure shapes thought
The tools you build determine what kinds of thinking become possible. On infrastructure, friction, and building deliberately for thought rather than just throughput.
Server-side dashboard architecture: Why moving data fetching off the browser changes everything
How choosing server-side rendering solved security, CORS, and credential management problems I didn't know I had.
The work of being available now
A book on AI, judgment, and staying human at work.
The practice of work in progress
Practical essays on how work actually gets done.
The job you didn't know you were hiring for
Most organizations hire for tasks. The ones that survive hire for attention. And attention turns out to be the hardest thing to delegate.
The second project problem
Your system works. Then you try it somewhere else and it falls apart. The gap between 'works here' and 'works anywhere' is where most automation dies — and most organizations never look.
The smartest code you'll ever delete
The most dangerous kind of waste isn't the thing that doesn't work. It's the thing that works beautifully and shouldn't exist.