Recent posts

• Metaphors for Machine Learning

  Apr 9, 2023

  Interacting with ML tools can feel like magic. People with no illustration skills can suddenly have a computer generate images they want just by describing them. Writing large amounts of content is as simple as providing a sentence or two of instructions. But I can't stop wrestling with the question: how will individuals make sense of these new tools, which are powerful in science-fiction ways, but inaccurate in very confusing ways?

• Shopping My Shelves

  Jan 3, 2023

  What if I survey my bookshelves and build a reading list based on what I have?

• Notes on 2022, a Benediction for 2023

  Dec 31, 2022

  This year, 2022, I grew tired of the metaphors and cliches available for me to make sense of life. Everything I would reach for to describe things was the language of war, or domination, or colonialism, or capitalism, and usually so pat as to preclude all possibilities of other ways of thinking or framing.

• Design without Designers

  Oct 31, 2022

  A review of "User Friendly", a book about the history of user-friendly design that is too afraid of challenging existing myths to actually pursue the interesting questions it raises.