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Unfortunately, Bad Advice has proved to be one of my most popular posts. To clarify, I do mean it when I say you shouldn’t do these things — I only list them because I’ve seen them work out well. Externally, I have Form is Fake on Substack, and Practice with Nihal Sahu.

I coined the term Interface Anxiety, and it continues to be one of my main focuses when designing apps. Software Design Ideas I Dislike is a good “via negativa” description of my overall approach to design.

I am a self-taught programmer (insofar as learning from people’s writing can be called “self-taught”) and approach it as a very serious hobbyist. I’ve historically been very interested in Local-first Software and adjacent topics like Databases (duh).

Agents Need Work Data was co-written with Anjali Shrivastava. We still stand by most of it, but it needs some editing re. some of the specifics (e.g. labs seem to be relying on data & environment vendors more than their own product traces).

i feel dizzy (again) is an essay about my reactions to AI progress between 2022–2024.

Most things in the world are a function of tradeoffs, coordination costs and mechanisms, and the exchange of value. How can one help but think about them? I wrote about one such problem in The problem of too much money, on Substack.

Of all the collections I’ve curated, I’m particularly proud of my (hand-saved) Twitter Bookmarks and my gallery of mobile Screenshots.