Plain Sight
Beth Keller Kirycki, Ph.D.Essays on UX, language, faith, and the hidden architecture of everyday life.
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Thank the Workaround, Then Check the Hyperdrive
I’m a huge Star Wars fan, so my brain can’t hear certain phrases neutrally. “A system encounters a disturbance” is one of them. I hear Obi-Wan Kenobi. Every time.
In the original film, Obi-Wan feels the destruction of Alderaan from the Mil...
A Little Less Resilience, a Lot More Swearing
I’ve started listening to You with the Sad Eyes, Christina Applegate’s memoir, and I adore her even more than I already did. She narrates the audiobook herself and did the recording in one take over several days. I find there’s something re...
Plain Sightings
This is a new, occasional format here. The weekly essays stay the same: researched, written, then revised or reworked. Plain Sightings show up in the weeks when I can’t produce one of those essays. They run anywhere from 150 words to 500....
The Only Place I Have Ever Been Alive
I have said some version of this sentence more times than I can count in recent months:
My body won’t let me stay out that long. My body won’t let me get everything I need to get done today. My body won’t let me sleep. My body won’t let me...
Maybe Dependence Isn't a Design Flaw
“I can do it by myself!”
It’s one of the first declarations of independence most of us make. A four-year-old refuses help with her shoes and puts them on the wrong feet. She buttons her coat crooked. She pours the milk and misses the cup e...
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