/posts/essays
Long-form writing with an argument. Each one carries a status and revision number, and changes over time.
2026
- The 48 hour project
- I turned 37
- Dogfood or die because of AI
- Faith apps deserve a wow
- Making rectangles
- A tool waits to be used
- Be a toolmaker
2025
- Dear Charlie
- Change of plans
- Why I'm making Harvous
- I'm not my Dad
- No response is a response
- Taking her last name
- The Real Glass Castle
- My Silent Cofounders
- To share is to live
- A Shifting Season
- The Family Farm Fire
- 1 year of making Harvous
- Through the Glass Door
- Hearing Spring
- App First. AI Second.
- Building for Tenants, Not Tourists
- The Seduction of Sparkle
- The AI Checkbox Fallacy
- From Domain Collector to Problem Solver
- Webflow's $39 Designer Seat Problem
- A decade of unconditional love
- The Joy of Inefficiency
- Dyslexic Thinking
2024
- 2024 Year in Review
- My WordPress Era
- It takes two... designers
- The Mirage of Growth
- Death by SOP
- Launch Day
- Mother's Day
- AI Traffic Signals
- Spectating game devlogs
- Thirty-five
- Hike
- Redirecting Ideas
- How I got into design
- Limited Screen Time (LST)
- Two strikes and the 80 percent rule
- My goofy Grandpa
2023
- The missing soul of Steve Jobs
- Seventy-three
- 2nd Time Watching E.T.
- What a wild Hike
- Thirty-four
- Goodbye Tags
2022
- My favorite rebrand of 2022
- Despising Saturdays
- The elephant in the room
- Leaving Apple Retail, Again
- Love with an asterisk
- Part-time designer
- Expand your branding
- Thirty-three
- Building home
- Button styling and expected function
- My church I once designed for
- Creating a brand voice matters
2021
- Bring on 2022
- I voted for Trump in 2020
- Prioritization
- I fear abandonment
- Making my dad proud
- Nothing special, yet