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- Fade to Blue 23 Jun 2026 Redesigning as a method of interrogation.
- Craft Is Not Culture 24 May 2026 A time, a place, and humans.
- The Drawing Hand 28 Apr 2026 Design tooling, LLMs, and why I still use a pencil.
- Real Wood 20 Apr 2026 AI makes particle board.
- Baseline Loss 02 Mar 2026 What the days look like now.
- Everybody Needs a Rock 14 Feb 2026 A new homepage and site improvements.
- Chasm Lake, Again 27 Jan 2026 2,545 feet of elevation gain, microspikes, and age.
- The Items We Carry Now 14 Jan 2026 Returning to work on photo tools.
- It's Time 09 Jan 2026 Gains without measurement.
- Music In 2025 22 Dec 2025 Less was more this year.
- Latent Co. is Forming 02 Dec 2025 Launching a new company to make a Mac photo editor.
- The Weeks 06 Nov 2025 A brief thought on practicing design in 2025.
- Million-Mile Tech 20 Oct 2025 Durability is the ultimate feature.
- The Hunt 18 Sep 2025 Friction and discovery matter more than algorithmic convenience.
- 64 Miles in New York City 14 Sep 2025 141,639 steps, food, and being married for 18 years.
- Have the Coffee 08 Sep 2025 Carve space out for opportunity.
- Letter Club 06 Aug 2025 An ode to the slow web.
- Different Think 04 Aug 2025 Apple's Liquid Glass has betrayed design.
- Just One Good Thing 21 Jul 2025 Reprogramming comparison culture.
- Beyond Curiosity 15 Jul 2025 I'm not sure he meant it that way.
- A Shakedown Camp 28 May 2025 Our first without Barb.
- Opinionated vs. Flexible Software 19 May 2025 Growth will kill strong opinions.
- Bring That Beat Back 16 May 2025 Drumming as therapy.
- Barbara "Nuggie" Schuetz-Hamid 08 May 2025 Rest in peace little one.
- The Abstraction Gap 01 May 2025 Bridging the design-development gap as AI rises.
- SXSW ’11 24 Apr 2025 Memories are an interesting beast.
- Kin 21 Apr 2025 The third culture difference.
- Hustle to Flow 16 Apr 2025 A meditation on entering flow state.
- Modus Operandi 13 Apr 2025 My operating rules and way of living.
- Forty-Seven 30 Mar 2025 47 guideposts for another year older.
- Operating Rules for Email Collaboration 18 Mar 2025 Writing, giving, and soliciting feedback via your inbox.
- Quality, Maintenance & Craft 12 Mar 2025 We are shokunin.
- Goodbye, Instagram 19 Feb 2025 Thanks for the memories, but good riddance.
- Your Site Is a Home 17 Feb 2025 Personal websites are better than social networks.
- Less Precious 07 Feb 2025 Social media is a trap.
- Simpler Screens 04 Feb 2025 My approach for a simpler smartphone.
- Tag, you’re it 25 Jan 2025 Answering the blog questions challenge.
- Bourdain's Blessing 06 Jan 2025 Remembering the times I saw Anthony Bourdain and the lessons he left.
- Music in 2024 30 Dec 2024 The artists, albums, and songs that were a hell yes this year.
- The Last Times 20 Dec 2024 How many more times will you experience this?
- Let This Be a Moment 14 Dec 2024 Moments of otherness.
- Parallel Gratitude 08 Dec 2024 Nighttime vigils lead to unexpected moments of grace.
- Competency vs. Mastery 25 Nov 2024 What do you require of your users to use your product?
- The Kids Are 13 Nov 2024 Finding youthful hope while waiting for tacos.
- The Work Is Never Done 06 Nov 2024 The long run: democracy and its constant work.
- No One Above the Law 20 Oct 2024 How I earned the right and duty to vote.
- A Working Trust 14 Oct 2024 How do we develop trust?
- Technologically Content 10 Oct 2024 I didn't upgrade my iPhone last year. And I'm not doing it this year.
- Mama and Me ‘24 07 Oct 2024 Making core memories with my mama, on the annual visit.
- Taken For A Ride 20 Sep 2024 Getting into a Waymo driverless car for the very first time.
- The Phone As Disruptive 05 Sep 2024 Reflections on the role of smart devices in our lives.
- Music is Memory 03 Sep 2024 Music gives me the feels.
- Bookmark to Bear 26 Aug 2024 Rolling my own low-brow and lo-fi system for saving web bookmarks.
- Seattle 07 Aug 2024 Revisiting a changed Seattle 17 years later.
- What's Next vs. What's Now 29 Jul 2024 Flipping perspectives courtesy of Trevor Noah.
- Balancing Tools and Culture 12 Jun 2024 Managing project management tools is not what we signed up for.
- The Amasa 25K 29 May 2024 A rundown of my first ever trail running race.
- Notes at 46 08 Apr 2024 Thoughts, observations, and new ways of approaching life a year later.
- Where You Give Your Energy 13 Mar 2024 Identifying where and how you get what you give.
- 2023 in the Rearview 03 Mar 2024 Looking back? And looking forward.
- The Long Start 10 Jan 2024 The story of how I started training for a 50K ultramarathon.
- Follow vs. Block 01 Jan 2024 The disconnection forced by algorithms.
- Where the Bathrooms Have No Name 27 Nov 2023 The lack of public bathrooms in the US is a statement.
- Threaded 05 Nov 2023 What is Instagram Threads really?
- Dissocial Media 01 Aug 2023 Thoughts on jettisoning social media.
- To Comprehend 14 Jul 2023 Marveling in the natural world that has existed for so long.
- May in the Mojave 26 Jun 2023 Capturing photographic moments camping.
- Midlife Malaise Part II 25 Jun 2023 The heaviness has a name.
- Midlife Malaise 08 Jun 2023 Feeling between, in a liminal space.
- Grandstand Grant 18 May 2023 Freezing a friend in a landscape.
- Nothing Bad About It 15 Apr 2023 Making good on what we missed.
- Notes at 45 11 Apr 2023 What do I hold true as I turn another year older?
- Grandstanding 11 Mar 2023 Capturing a moment with friends in Death Valley.
- Borrego Boogie 07 Mar 2023 Vehicular exploration in the desert.
- 46 14 Jan 2023 Another year for my life partner.
- Hoja Santa 13 Jan 2023 A tasty sacred leaf.
- Road Hunting 07 Jan 2023 Roads in wild places.
- Mirrored Malaysia 13 Sep 2022 A morning moment remembered.
- Road to Mesa 17 Jul 2022 Humility in nature.
- This Is What We Have To Lose 09 Aug 2021 The point of no return for our climate.
- Four Years Gone 20 Jun 2021 Remembering my father and the day he passed.
- Now Reopen for Business 16 Jun 2021 Is the pandemic over? California reopens in full.
- A Second Shot 12 May 2021 Getting vaccine dose number two.
- Re-entry 19 Apr 2021 Vaccine shot no. 1, and the whiplash of realization.
- Forty Three 13 Apr 2021 I turned 43 in Death Valley.
- On Racism 17 Mar 2021 A brown immigrant's experience of racism in America.
- Music That Got Me Through 2020 31 Jan 2021 The albums that were on heavy rotation during turbulence.
- Stairway to the Sun 02 Jan 2021 The pyramids outside of Mexico City.
- Biblioteca Vasconselos 01 Jan 2021 The gorgeous Mexico City library.
- Resilience By Design 17 Apr 2020 How does product design adapt in an ever-changing world?
- I Don't Have Facebook 14 Jan 2015 And I don't plan to.
- The New Design 20 May 2013 What those new to the field should know, and how we can help.
- On Rdio 07 Jun 2010 Rdio comes out of beta, and what a glorious service it is.
- Boy Meets Girl 26 Oct 2004 The story of how I met Jen Schuetz.
- A Simple Sophistication 22 Mar 2004 Considering how much design is too much.
