Thinking
Things I keep finding, written down.
Mostly about systems: why they get confusing, how they end up undocumented, and what it costs not to fix the foundations. Usually written months later, because I’m still overthinking it.
Design Systems · 3 min read
The hard part of adopting ShadCN wasn’t technical.
It looks like something you’d need to code to have a say in. You don’t.
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Systems Thinking · 3 min read
Most “complex” systems are just undocumented ones.
Most systems aren’t complex. They’re full of sensible decisions nobody ever wrote down.
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Product Strategy · 6 min read
Nobody wants the new feature. They just want the old one to work.
The four pressures that quietly wear a product down, and how to make the case for fixing the foundations first.
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Design & AI · Coming soon
What Claude and Lovable leave for a designer to do.
Notes from using both, and what each one still needs a person for.
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