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The Algo Election: How 2024 revealed a fragmented reality
The algorithm has become the retina of the mind's eye
Nov 13, 2024 • 
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The Algo Election: How 2024 revealed a fragmented reality
Tech debt is eating the world
Web infrastructure begets inequality, especially for tech nonprofits
Mar 14, 2022 • 
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Tech debt is eating the world
Slow it all down
Recommendations for meditation, journaling, and art.
Nov 26, 2023 • 
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Frameworks for measuring product inclusion and product equity
A few working frameworks for PMs, execs, small teams, and startups
Feb 28, 2021 • 
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Frameworks for measuring product inclusion and product equity
Inclusive data analysis: Find the needle and then the haystack
A case study on averages and margins
Feb 3, 2021 • 
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Inclusive data analysis: Find the needle and then the haystack
Objective function, what's your function? How to grok AI and existential risk
It's the optimization, stupid!
Jun 8, 2023 • 
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What product inclusion and Latinx Immigrants can teach WhatsApp
How a product inclusion framework can improve WhatsApp for all users
Jan 19, 2021 • 
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Against growth: Building a slower, more thoughtful internet
Unlearning growth-by-default like our lives depend on it
Mar 14, 2021 • 
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Against growth: Building a slower, more thoughtful internet
How to do nothing productive (with tech)
In which I recommend three art projects and a few new ways of seeing.
Aug 31, 2022 • 
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How to do nothing productive (with tech)
Whose Line Is It Anyway? Human Decentered Design in ChatGPT
What ChatGPT's product design can tell us about its creators, their ideas, and ourselves
May 22, 2023 • 
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Whose Line Is It Anyway? Human Decentered Design in ChatGPT
Bluesky: Will or won’t they enshit?
For now, Bluesky is a freer, less profit-driven internet — but can it last?
Jan 31 • 
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Bluesky: Will or won’t they enshit?
Attack of the Clones: Understanding the AI population boom
Why anthropomorphism is taking root in AI, with a case study on OpenAI's GPTs
Dec 7, 2023 • 
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