Writing
Noises of AI
Notes on AI, media, and product judgment. What's worth building, what's overhyped, and what should stay human.
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When People Stop Searching in the Browser
Search is leaving the browser. Everything that happens after the search is not. Three companies made three different bets about which half to keep.
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Designing an AI Assistant for a Meeting Follow-Up
A meeting follow-up case study showing how I would apply six design steps across five connected workstreams.
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How I Would Design a Personal AI Assistant: A Six-Step Framework
A framework for deciding how an AI assistant should understand, prepare, act, and hand control back to the user.
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Creation Got Cheap. Discovery Didn't.
In streaming, 90% of catalog is never heard. AI creative tools are about to do this to every medium.
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The Friction Problem in AI Learning Tools
A friend is building Duolingo for everything. The AI generates the content. The open question is when the tool should make things harder on purpose.
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Design for Six Months from Now
Most AI products are designed for today's user with today's model. Both will be different by the time you ship.
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AI and the Judgment Problem
The question isn't whether a decision is high-stakes. It's whether the success criteria hold still long enough for an algorithm to learn them.
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What Suno and Descript get right that most AI tools don't
They don't try to replace the creative act. They expand the scope of who can attempt it.
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Curiosity as a design constraint
Curiosity doesn't come from novelty. It comes from almost recognizing something. That near-miss is a designable moment.