Rethinking Systems

Exploring Ways of Knowing

A work in progress – the beginning of a slide deck

Seduced by Sensemaking

They say smart people join cults because their minds crave cohesion. Basically, smart people are suckers for an explanation that makes sense.

Simple, Lovable, Complete

What would a “simple, lovable, complete” report look like?

administrative debt

In software engineering, technical debt is when you work quickly

Take Emotion Seriously

When designing anything, even–especially–systems that feel like they are dry and neutral, we need to take emotion seriously. What does that look like?

a data system is a hypothesis about the world

A file system is an expression of how you see

When was the last time you explained something to someone?

When was the last time you explained something to someone?

Who invented habit tracking?

An informal continuation of Remember when habits were bad? I’

Casual experiments in productivity

I don’t know what I believe anymore about getting

“What would it mean to be done for the day?”

Just as I was going to resign myself to not