From the studio
Notes from the studio.
Reflections and lessons from the practice of building software with care. Process notes, design decisions, and the people behind the work.
Can AI be the solution to the AI problem?
The conversation goes back to two arguments: AI will save us, or break us. But what if the problems we blame on the machine were never really about the machine?
A healthy technological ecosystem
Everyone means tools when they say 'tech stack.' But a healthy technological ecosystem is really about people, the ones who make the software and the ones who live in it. The gap between them is shorter than it looks.
When software is a kind of caregiving
The tools that matter most reach people on their worst days. Build one of those well and it does what good care does. It helps, then leaves you freer instead of more dependent.
On listening before we build
Before we write a line, we listen. A brief is a position, the real need might be under it. Here's how we draw it out, the way a mediator would, and turn it into what to build.