About me

I am a Media Arts & Sciences researcher at the MIT Media Lab. My writings are made possible by visionaries who believe in the power of words as well as the technology and art they inspire. You are invited to join me as a sponsor for my work, a collaborator, or a host for my talks and presentations. Please reach out via LinkedIn.

Recent posts

• En Route 6/18/2026 #travel #essay

• The Third Interface 3/20/2026 #design #ai #philosophy

• A Day Carried West 3/16/2026 #fiction #travel #boston

• Make The Web Great Again 2/28/2026 #engineering #ai

• Cynthia's Valentine 2/15/2026 #scifi #ai

• The 3AM Test 1/30/2026 #ai #philosophy

• Easy Trap 12/3/2025 #philosophy #ai #programming

• Bridge Builders 11/15/2025 #philosophy #games

• The Porcelain to Come 10/10/2025 #programming #ai #philosophy

• TeleAbsence 9/20/2025 #life

• Procrastination 9/15/2025 #defrag #school

• Defragmentation 9/6/2025 #defrag #school

• Vibe-coding the MIT Course Catalog 8/6/2025 #report #llm #engineering

• Non-scalable Software 8/6/2025 #ai #opinion

• Figma Make Is Not the Future of Design 7/27/2025 #ai #business #design

• When Machine Talks Back 7/15/2025 #ai #philosophy

• (Un)framework 7/3/2025 #engineering #learning

• Streamlet: Towards Compositional Reactivity 7/3/2025 #engineering #architecture

• Eigenvalues of Generative Media 6/30/2025 #ai #writing

• The Grammar of Independence 6/7/2025 #design #engineering #learning #ai

• A Case for Imperative Thinking 6/7/2025 #learning #cycling

• The Last of Programmers, the First of Artists 4/30/2025 #ai #reflection

• React (Hooks) is All You Need 4/19/2025 #ai #engineering

• Developers Are Designers Too 3/29/2025 #design #engineering

• Map, Compass, and AI 3/25/2025 #career #philosophy #ai

• Two Types of Work 1/26/2025 #career #learning

• Direct Manipulation vs Interface Agents 1/23/2025 #design #hci #ai

• First Look at Bolt.new 10/3/2024 #llm #gen-ui

• Reading Optimal Illusions 8/31/2024 #book #rowing

• Figma Instance Considered Harmful 8/22/2024 #design #figma

• The Golden Age for Barefoot Developers 8/13/2024 #ai

• Lessons From a Bike Shop 8/11/2024 #career #learning

• Issues With Web UI Generation 8/6/2024 #ai #design

• Reinventing on Principle 7/31/2024 #career

• Claude 3.5 Sonnect Artifact System Prompt 7/3/2024 #ai #hack

• AI Fatigue 2/1/2024 #ai #ux

• All Predictions Are Wrong 1/1/2024 #design #opinion

• On the Bitter Lesson 12/4/2023 #ai #business

• What if Your Agents Can Rent Tools for Thought? 11/8/2023 #ai #business

• Reinvent the Wheel 6/30/2023 #design #opinion

• Imposter Inversion 8/4/2022 #career

• The Vanishing Designer 7/22/2022 #design

• Influencer Takeover of LinkedIn 7/25/2021 #opinion

• Where Are You Originally From? 12/3/2020 #opinion

• Interaction Design Is a Symptom 2/20/2020 #design #opinion

• A Case Against “Pixel Perfect” Design 10/23/2019 #design

• Are You Experiencing the Kessler Syndrome? 8/25/2018 #engineering

• Functional Prototyping 1/16/2018 #design

• Beyond Artboards 12/31/2017 #design