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.
Aphantasia
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
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
There's something for every occasion!
Conversational Humor Is Funny Only After You've Seen It Click
Most funny interactions betray the usual categories and seem to be evolutionary or emergent.
Embedded Prophesy Devices
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
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...