Long-form writing on AI, design leadership, and what I learned founding a company.
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Building a playground for AI-native learning
Bixel is where I build my own crawlers, bots and LLM data extraction. Here is what is in it, what broke, and what it taught me.
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Getting a bot verified by Cloudflare
What Cloudflare's Verified Bots program is, what it took for a one-person crawler to get in, and what it says about bot and human traffic on the web.
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Headless products make research the design work
If customers reach your product through an agent instead of your interface, the design that matters is how well you understand what they were trying to do.
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An agent is a job description
The hardest part of building an agent is the part companies have always been bad at, which is writing down what the job actually is.
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What is left for design when the screen is optional
The cost of producing an interface is falling toward zero. The value of knowing which one to produce is not.
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What founding and selling a company taught me about leading design
Running Digs changed what I think a design leader is for. Most of it had nothing to do with design.
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Designing next to a founder
The closer design sits to the person with the vision, the faster it moves and the more it has to translate.