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Thoughts on the software industry

The Forever Library

Invention and innovation

Scales of cities, scales of software

Possible by default

우리의 얘기를 쓰겠소 (Writing Our Stories)

Escape velocities

User interfaces and software wayfinding

On tactility of books

Light, shadow, and occlusion in software interface design

Writing is software for human behavior

Artists and creative work as vehicles for ideas

Let it pour out

The last transmission

Art is a hologram of all that is not art

Different kinds of silence

Happy Transfer Day

Questions in science, questions of science

Wine, poetry, or virtue, as you wish

Can't Help Falling in Love

I Won't Give Up (and other things)

Life as a studio

The Experience Collectors

Why practice makes perfect

Enchanted mechanisms of life

Laying bricks, building castles: sketches aren't perfect

Hills beyond the horizon

Looking back at my writing in 2020

Jobs to find the unknown unknowns

What does art do?

evermore, and other beautiful things

Pushing Daisies

How do you get so much done?

Three kinds of computing

In search of spectacle

I Like Me Better

How to get lots of ideas for side projects and writing

Growth as a writer

Say You Won't Let Go

Immortality is inevitable

Understanding is ideas integrated over time

Guiding ideas for gap years

Airport nostalgia

On opaque titles

Best I'll Ever Sing

What do we need to know to start making a difference?

Scannability is king

When is no-code useful?

What makes Twitter different, and other thoughts on identity

Space-time duals between functional and object-oriented programming

Investing in experiences: the calculus of gap years

I Hope You Find It

Does hacker culture export American values?

I work in long bursts

Public library, redux

Are there indescribable things?

Business model transparency as a feature

Cultural imperialism via product design

The in-betweens

The rise of shortform media

Gap years v. Pandemic

Social distancing

The lifecycle of an idea

Abstractions: writing and coding

지켜줄게 (embrace)

Software-enabled community infrastructure

Know, feel, love

How we measure time

Life after midnight

Cornelia Street

The next generation of makers