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Aether Mug - Blowing Against the Fog of War

A little about Plankton Valhalla and Aether Mug.

Aether Mug - Jack of All Trades, Master of Something

Generalism is a specialization.

Aether Mug - Aphantasia Is No Creativity-Killer

I turned my back to art, then turned again.

Aether Mug - POSIWID

I If your pants keep sliding down as you walk, you tighten your belt. The intention is for them to stay up at all times, but it takes a structural change—a...

Aether Mug - "Bad" Framings

And how to spot them.

Aether Mug - Borges on Chaos Theory

About a weird, lovely short story.

Aether Mug - Human Language Is Not a Network

A visual explanation.

Aether Mug - Is There Anything Untranslatable?

Words do mean things, but not only.

Aether Mug - Hills Not Walls

Sometimes you hit against a wall. Your plans are cut off, a link in the chain is broken, and you're forced to a standstill, in frustration. A pierced tire, a...

Aether Mug - They Made Us

Natural selection is the opposite of what it sounds.

Aether Mug - A Medium-Agnostic Taxonomy of Notifications

Or, I Went a Bit Too Far Fantasizing About the Ideal Notification UX

Aether Mug - Language is a Bottleneck for Thought

The definitive case in favor of headjacks?

Aether Mug - The Beautiful Dissociation of the Japanese Language

An extra dimension that you can play with.

You Impersonate What You Think You Are

Can you do me a favor?

A Fundamental Framing of Human Language

If a framing is a choice of boundaries, and we're forced to pick one in order to build our mental models, what do we usually choose? I don't think we have a...

Don't Think and Write, They Say

Online writing beyond bowel movements.

A subjective desctiption of the experience.

A Framing Is a Choice of Boundaries

One way or another, you've gotta chop it up.

Software Projects Will Be Late

February 29, 2024

I've been a product manager by trade, and I've done various kinds of engineering over time, especially software engineering. Back-end, front-end,...

Internal Model Translation Table

February 22, 2024

There's something for every occasion!

Conversational Humor Is Funny Only After You've Seen It Click

February 16, 2024

Most funny interactions betray the usual categories and seem to be evolutionary or emergent.

Embedded Prophesy Devices

February 8, 2024

When you walk on a sidewalk you are pretty sure it won't kill you as you step on it. Somehow, you know that moving your foot forward and shifting your full...

Designing for Emergence

February 2, 2024

I was reading a fascinating website (23 years old!) of University of York Professor Susan Stepney, and this call to action caught my eye. If we are ever to...