NikDesign Journal
Mostly me thinking out loud. Sometimes it turns into something.
- The First Function 2026-10-08
- I Automated So Much Work I Had to Invent Management Again 2026-10-06
- Vicki Read the Fucking Book 2026-10-06
- The Kid Is Going to Get Into the Kitchen 2026-10-06
- Hello, World 2026-10-04
- It Takes a Village 2026-10-04
- I'm Not Building Software. I'm Designing the Experience. 2026-10-04
- Please Don't Fuck This One Up: An Open Letter to Meta About Muse 2026-10-02
- Designing for Humans Before We Know the Ending 2026-09-28
- How a Single R Can Topple the 5Ss 2026-09-27
- Audit. Addit. Edit. 2026-09-24
- AI Slop: You Pressed Share 2026-09-20
- Free Your Mind: What a Fight With Copilot Taught Me About AI, Politics, and Hope 2026-09-15
- Constrained Agency: The Closest Thing to Free Will I’ve Seen in an LLM 2026-09-14
- Voice Agents Need to Learn Voice Acting 2026-08-26
- A True Classroom Only Has Students 2026-08-25
- I Believe 2026-08-19
- The Dance Floor Is a Sacred Place 2026-08-17
- We Built the Genie. Now Learn How to Make a Wish. 2026-08-17
- The Great 9/11 2026-08-13
- 9.18 2026-08-12
- Mr. Anderson 2026-08-12
- The Doorway and the Destination 2026-08-12
- The Two Greatest Love Stories Ever Told 2026-08-12
- Software Is a Building. We’ve Been Saying It All Along. 2026-08-09
- Care Enough to Relinquish Control 2026-08-05
- What Our Ancestors Leave in Art 2026-07-31
- Guru Purnima: Why an Ancient Indian Tradition Still Matters in the Age of Artificial Intelligence 2026-07-28
- Diwali and Its Origins: The Many Stories Behind the Festival of Lights 2026-07-27
- Portfolio Never Stopped Carrying Things 2026-07-24
- From Memento to The Odyssey: Christopher Nolan Learned to Build Myths at Scale 2026-07-19
- Sweden Taught Music Like a Language. The World Is Still Singing. 2026-07-18
- Git, Branches, and the Things We Leave Behind 2026-07-12
- Tech Jargon Is a Crime Scene: A Field Guide to Linguistic Theft 2026-07-06
- Batman Was Built at Home 2026-06-27
- War Became a Video Game. AI Is the Next Player. 2026-06-20
- Agentic AI Will Kill Fake Agile, Not Real Feedback 2026-06-19
- The Actor Is Not a Prompt 2026-06-17
- Human in the Loop Is Accountability 2026-06-12
- What Makes an AI Product a Secret Sauce? 2026-06-10
- Frontier Models Need Drivers 2026-05-30
- Spiroling 2026-05-13
- Systems That Need a Voice 2026-05-11
- Field Notes on Adoption 2026-05-09
- Designing for Truth 2020-01-01