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  • Claws and teeth

    Heating up We were born to work together like feet, hands and eyes, like the two rows of teeth, upper and lower. To obstruct each other is unnatural. To feel anger at someone, to turn…

  • Sliding doors

    I have found life to be too short to be preoccupied with pain from the past. – Jill Bolte Taylor On a recent meditation retreat, I spent the first few days living in the…

  • A study in Frustration

    “Suffering is the rejection of reality” – Yuval Noah Harari Thy right is to work only, but never to its fruits; let the fruit of action be not thy motive, nor let thy attachment…

  • Abstractified

    What I like about Temple Grandin is she gets to the point. In “Animals in Translation”, she doesn’t spend long digging into the science, research studies or history behind a fact. She’ll just say…

  • The best course of action

    “The aim of the painting is that the eye should find out what it likes.“ – Marion Milner A recommendation is defined as ‘a suggestion or proposal as to the best course of action’.…

  • Designing with concepts

    In his book The Essence of Software: Why Concepts Matter for Great Design, author Daniel Jackson says that all apps are made up of collections of “concepts” each a “self-contained unit of functionality.” A concept…

  • Taking meditation seriously

    As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence. – Robert Anton Wilson Belief is a toxic and dangerous attitude toward reality.…

  • Writing rightly

    Last August I posted a note to Substack that outlined my criteria for publishing writing. It should be: I mostly still agree with these but wanted to include my general ethical attitude/approach toward my…

  • Are designers making design hard for themselves?

    These days, whether it’s gen AI or the overall death of the industry, there’s no shortage of problems flying around for designers. And that’s what I expected to read about when I picked up this short…