Published inUX CollectiveAbstraction, combination, relation: how to visualize structureHow can we create a tool that represents our thoughts — adding as little as possible and losing nothing?May 2A response icon1May 2A response icon1
Published inUX Collective“It Just Works” — The Three Stages of Technological Depoliticization“It Just Works” is propaganda: it hides the trail that products cut though our societies and the natural world to get to us.Jan 29A response icon2Jan 29A response icon2
Published inUX CollectiveWhy is hiring software so impersonal?Today’s hiring technology is experiencing an arms race — between hiring managers and candidates — with both groups attempting to process…Nov 23, 2024A response icon11Nov 23, 2024A response icon11
The Cybernetic Word ProcessorThe cybernetic word processor is for a program for writing, not merely for inserting characters into a file.Apr 18, 2024Apr 18, 2024
Published inUX CollectiveThe purpose of a system is how we shape itWe are not masters of our information, but we can be if we build information systems shaped like human consciousness.May 18, 2023A response icon1May 18, 2023A response icon1
Published inUX CollectiveArtificial Intelligence: the soul of soulless conditionsWhat we call AI today comes to us with a perfectly false prospectus: human-feeling, yet hiding the potential to maximize everything…Apr 13, 2023A response icon1Apr 13, 2023A response icon1
Published inUX CollectiveThe computer screen is the retina of the mind’s eyeComputers are already having an outsized impact on our world and, if not controlled, will dominate it.Jan 24, 2023Jan 24, 2023
Distributed Ledger, Markets and SocialismAn idea for how distributed ledgers could combine the benefits of both capitalism and socialism.May 18, 2022May 18, 2022
Star Trek and Information RetrievalStar Trek presents a future that is simultaneously much more technological but in which our relationship with technology is more human; the…Dec 26, 2021Dec 26, 2021
Why the Ethical Character of The Internet Matters (the Future of Coordinated Thinking Pt. 3)I argue that anyone who cares about human flourishing should concern themselves with Internet freedom, interoperability and ideisomorphism.Dec 15, 2021Dec 15, 2021
