The Creation Problem: How Social Platforms Disincentivize Production
Social platforms profit from consumption while systematically creating barriers to creation—revealing a structural misalignment between business models and human creative drive.
Digital Culture
Understanding how technology shapes the way we work, connect, and build communities. Insights on creating healthier digital environments and more meaningful online interactions.
Conway's Law in the Age of AI: How Communication Shapes Organizations
As AI agents reshape organizational communication patterns, Conway's Law works both ways—our systems mirror our structures, but those systems then reinforce and calcify those same structures, creating a feedback loop that AI will dramatically amplify.
Why I Traded My Apple Watch for a Casio
In trading my Apple Watch for a simple Casio, I'm rediscovering what it means to listen to my body rather than outsourcing my health decisions to algorithms and activity rings.
Why Stakeholders Push Boundaries (and How to Respond)
From a small-town TV station owner's creative requests to modern enterprise clients, I've learned that ambitious feature asks are often just thinking out loud – the real skill is understanding the underlying need.
Technology Won't Save Us From Meetings
AI promises to fix our meeting culture, but the solution lies in something more fundamental: human behavior
Why Companies Can't Regulate Their Own AI
As Google's recent rollback of AI ethical principles demonstrates, we can't expect companies to consistently choose ethics over growth—but we can make ethical behavior the profitable choice.