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Brief pieces of writing that each focus on one little idea.

2024

8 May 2024The Deployment Age
24 Apr 2024Tiny Bet #2: Prehistoric Artefacts

2023

19 Dec 2023DESIGN FICTION: A Brief History of Sailing
13 Dec 2023DESIGN FICTION: Great Hall of Possibilities
21 Nov 2023DESIGN FICTION: Diary of a Basking Shark
14 Nov 2023DESIGN FICTION: Masked Themselves from History
7 Nov 2023DESIGN FICTION: Nature Buddy
31 Oct 2023DESIGN FICTION: How the City Plants Grow
24 Oct 2023BIOPHILIA SUMMARY: Rewilding the Sea
24 Oct 2023DESIGN FICTION: Birth Flower
23 Oct 2023AI SUMMARY: Prompting is hard, AIs can help
17 Oct 2023DESIGN FICTION: Dead Pokemon
10 Oct 2023DESIGN FICTION: Forest Fraud
3 Oct 2023DESIGN FICTION: Product Sage or Who Oversees the AI Ethicists
25 Sept 2023DESIGN FICTION: EVP, Panthera
19 Sept 2023DESIGN FICTION: Throw-Away Bottle
11 Sept 2023DESIGN FICTION: Climate Artefacts
11 Sept 2023DESIGN FICTION: Transfer Season
6 Sept 2023DESIGN FICTION: Plant Directory
16 Aug 2023DESIGN FICTION: The Memes are Never Justified by the Ends
17 Jul 2023DESIGN FICTION: Saints of the Regeneration
4 Jul 2023DESIGN FICTION: Ju’wasi School
20 Jun 2023DESIGN FICTION: Alone with the Ancients
19 Jun 2023DESIGN FICTION: Colour of the Year 2034
18 Jun 2023DESIGN FICTION: Citizen Oak
16 Jun 2023DESIGN FICTION: Karma Off-setting
25 May 2023Favourite Problems
22 May 2023Feathermap
18 Apr 2023Material Ecology
13 Apr 2023Age of Augmented Invention
11 Apr 2023Freeman Dyson on AGI
1 Apr 2023David Deutsch On Discovery
23 Mar 2023In Praise of Futurism
21 Mar 2023Decarbonisation in one Number
20 Mar 2023Where do we put the camera in the Permaweird?
27 Feb 2023Van Gogh On Fear in Art
24 Jan 2023Piraha Spirit Story
23 Jan 2023Lullabies and Content Recommendation
23 Jan 2023Socrates’ Daemon
21 Jan 2023My PhD problem in 10 lines
20 Jan 2023Digital Litter
19 Jan 2023Why I Uninstalled TikTok
18 Jan 2023Against the Commodification of Community
17 Jan 2023David Deutsch on Knowledge
16 Jan 2023Flooding the Zone of the Ancients
15 Jan 2023Speculative Futures and Barriers to Entry
14 Jan 2023500 Whys: Writing your Purpose Statement
14 Jan 2023Ju’wasi Hunting Story
13 Jan 2023Tiny Bets
12 Jan 2023Three Beliefs about Purpose
11 Jan 2023Who TikTok hires
10 Jan 2023There's no such thing as Sustainability
9 Jan 2023Why are Humans worth Sustaining?
8 Jan 2023Le Corbusier On Mastery
7 Jan 2023Highly Sensitive People at Speed
6 Jan 2023Biophilia
5 Jan 2023Refining my Information Diet
4 Jan 2023Beauty, Charisma and AI
3 Jan 2023Machiavelli’s 4D Chess

2022

28 Dec 2022Tibetan Creativity and ChatGPT
27 Dec 2022Prediction: Idea Management will grow 3X in the 2020s
26 Dec 2022Ideas are getting harder to find
25 Dec 2022David Deutsch on Possibility in Science
24 Dec 2022Ways of Exploring II
23 Dec 2022Ways of Exploring
22 Dec 2022Everything, everywhere is always moving. Forever.
21 Dec 2022Sol LeWitt on Conceptual Art
20 Dec 2022VUCA by Design
19 Dec 2022Idea Maze, Multi-Maze
18 Dec 2022How are you Navigating?
17 Dec 2022Stepping Stones in Idea Space
16 Dec 2022Org challenges and UX of AI
15 Dec 2022How I got into AI
14 Dec 2022What is the UX of AI
13 Dec 2022Podcast: UX for AI Products
12 Dec 2022TikTok Time
11 Dec 2022Above All, Speed
10 Dec 2022Neri Oxman on Innovation and Loneliness
9 Dec 2022Human Nests and ‘Good Enough’ Design
8 Dec 2022The Pain of Convergence
7 Dec 2022ChatGPT and Lived Experience
6 Dec 2022Invest early in Ad Integrity
5 Dec 2022Norman Foster on the Future of Design
4 Dec 2022The Great Hall of Possible Inventions
3 Dec 2022In Praise of Possibilities
2 Dec 2022Navigating the FOMOsphere
1 Dec 2022The FOMOsphere
30 Nov 2022Trust, Safety and Organic’s Blurring Lines
29 Nov 2022Why I joined TikTok
28 Nov 2022Futurism and Procrastination
27 Nov 2022Experience Design and existential overwhelm
27 Nov 2022Progress and the accumulation of Knowledge
25 Nov 2022Human-Centred Design's Christian roots
24 Nov 2022Why Ad Integrity is important
22 Nov 2022Who should join TikTok
21 Nov 2022FOMO in the Exponential Age
20 Nov 2022Lewis Mumford On Technology
19 Nov 2022Principles of SMS Design
18 Nov 2022Decision-boundaries and super-labellers
17 Nov 2022The Bullshit-Industrial Complex just got Bullshitier
16 Nov 2022The Hype Cycle and Perfect Prediction Horizons
15 Nov 2022Dad-tactics before the birth

2021

2 Jan 2021AI Problem Statements

2020

17 Dec 2020UX Design Teams and AI
15 Dec 2020Books of 2020
14 Dec 2020How I Read
12 Dec 2020The Experiential Futures Ladder
1 Dec 2020The Limits of Rapid Prototyping in AI
17 Nov 2020The Design Difficulties of Human-AI Interaction
8 Nov 2020The Bullshit-Industrial Complex
5 Nov 2020Exploring the Intuition Spaces of Others
3 Nov 2020Principles of Futures Thinking
29 Oct 2020Levels of Uncertainty
10 Sept 2020AI prototypes make Data Products tangible
24 Aug 2020Machine Learning and the evolution of extended human capabilities
22 Aug 2020Fallibilism and Product Management
20 Aug 2020Adaptive preference and shrinking Product Vision
24 Jul 2020Deciding what to test in AI prototypes
18 Jul 2020Signalling in Innovation Management
16 Jul 2020Avoid ‘Big Bang’ Delivery
8 Jul 2020Minimal Theme for Roam Research
7 Jul 2020Prototyping is Thinking through Making
4 Jul 2020Some data’s more equal than others
3 Jul 2020Affordances and AI
2 Jul 2020Doubt and Double-loop Learning
30 Jun 2020The Management Quantum Effect
27 Jun 2020Talkers are dangerous
19 Jun 2020Invention & Innovation
10 Jun 2020Trends: Pattern errors & extrapolation errors
6 Jun 2020Executives should change their minds
6 Jun 2020Short Thoughts