March 21, 2026 Smash That Like
Why the Like button needs to die. Exploring how a simple microinteraction became the ultimate tool for capitalist extraction, and why true user experience demands we abandon boardroom metrics like "engagement."
March 21, 2026 Why the Like button needs to die. Exploring how a simple microinteraction became the ultimate tool for capitalist extraction, and why true user experience demands we abandon boardroom metrics like "engagement."
February 14, 2026 How I view Apple's latest example of product decisions made in boardrooms and why logistics and marketing executives should not have the final say in forming the strategy of a technology company.
February 1, 2026 Future generations will look back on the advent of social media and consumer AI very differently than we did when romanticising the personal computer boom in the '80s or the invention of the World Wide Web in the '90s.
January 28, 2026 Welcome to the public internet version of my brain. Setting expectations for the future of the site, a peek under the hood at the site's tech, and why you shouldn't cite this blog in your thesis.
March 19, 2013 An exploration of piracy and how by downloading the culture and software priced out of my reach, I hacked my way into a design career and a fluency in English that the state education system completely failed to provide.