the density of space

density, paths
  1. near/far studio

    Announcing my new design and strategy consultancy.

  2. end of year

    On moving to New York, collaboration and shipping.

  3. new gig

    I’m full-time with Urbanscale!

  4. polishing

    On polish, slogging and ePub.

  5. onward

    Pulled in many different directions.

  6. recurse

    On prerequisites, continuity & focus.

  7. back

    After a brief hiatus.

  8. TATFT

    Mistakes. On QA and the value of automated testing.

  9. that last 1%

    On deploying a major refactor and cheating in iOS.

  10. the networked city

    Some of the scariest networked interventions into the city are related to advertising.

  11. shipping & gimmicks

    A Big Cartel feature launch & the design of interactive children’s books.

  12. memory palace

    Progress is in only one direction—forward.

  13. route folding

    What if we turned giving directions into a game?

  14. a better nation

    “Work as if you lived in the early days of a better nation.”
    — Alasdair Gray

  15. chimera

    “As generative art leaves behind a childhood full of fractal toys among Lindenmayer trees, and reaches, if not maturity, at least some kind of confident youth, I regard it as its biggest challenge to find aesthetic venues that are not just uncritical imitation of art as we know it, nor imitation of nature for the sake of it. Venues that are, if you allow me, not too human, and not too inhuman, but a path open only by the collaboration between a person and an automated system: a really hybrid creature, an aesthetic chimera.”
    Leonardo Solaas

  16. consider a door

    We need to bring all of our content into one space, a space where we can draw inferences, create links and allow what we’ve made to better inform what we are doing now.

  17. sharing unity

    How do we make group software for groups that already exist?

  18. surfacing older content

    What if you want individual entries to remain eminently accessible as resources to visitors who may not be (and may never become) regular followers of your blog?

  19. resolution

    Relationships are about progressively refining our ability to see and act on those millions of decision points that either bring us closer together or push us further apart. It’s all about resolution. As you grow together, the decision points grow finer and finer. There is no maximum resolution, no bottom to the recursion.

  20. suspension of disbelief

    What if the laws of physics were a local phenomenon, transmitted from place to place, carried by people in the way they view the world?

  21. we call it work

    Seven or so rules for collaborating professionally and still staying friends.

  22. feeds

    Minimize decisions through effective defaults.

  23. all things

    Each act suggests an action, a continuity, a flowing into.