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2022 (2 posts)

  • Notes on 2022, a Benediction for 2023

    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

    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.