
Notes from a design researcher collecting patterns in our common life. Expect meandering essays, weird charts, & the odd napkin sketch.
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Roses. Sketched while in France, 2023.
Hello! I’ve been spending the last few weeks with friends in Provence, writing and reading (and working remotely — capitalism marches on). I come here every summer, and every summer I end up collectin...
Canoes at Algonquin Wildlife Research Station, Ontario, Canada, in August.
If you missed my last post on designing for hope & agency in our elections, read it here!
I. Existential Summer Camp
There may be no other life stage so comprehen...
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This feels important* is a design researcher’s messy whiteboard of observations, ideas, and mental models about our shared common life.
May include: An essay on hope as a civic virtue. A bubble chart on how to be a goo...
The Democrats did something!!
Last week was thrilling. I don’t just mean this in a “brat”-memed, collective-internet-hysteria way (though that’s also true. Please don’t look at my Twitter dms).
I mean it’s actually been civically thrillin...
This is the Sacred & the Mondaine.
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I write This feels important*, a collection of rambling essays, weird charts, and napkin sketches about common life. I also host, build, and design things for social healing. Journalist & designer in Austin, TX.
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