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A short guide to making AI work for you
Six moves design system professionals can take to accelerate and celebrate your work
Does anyone know what snow is? [Part 3: Whiteout]
Momentary mourning of a world that had to be forgotten.
Inequality, weaponized
How soft transhumanism could still be something we all own
Does anyone know what snow is? [Part 2: Archive]
Laughing ghosts of the past, playing in flurries of white.
How to build the thing that gets you to the thing
A practical guide to making systems that serve people
Does anyone know what snow is? [Part 1: Artifact]
A broken song, and a word the world no longer understands.
The thing that gets you to the thing
Why we build design systems, AI tools, and everything else
When AI can do everything else, your job is to make it good
If you're not here for the quality, why are you here at all?
Smoke 'em if you got 'em
Rising from the ashes...and priced accordingly.
Permission to dance
When we couldn't help but tap our feet to the beat of America's future.

August 2025

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