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A Complete Obsession

February 9, 2025  •  3 min readStill from _The Brutalist_. An architect, holding a blueprint, is at the center of a group of people.
My wife and I are big movie lovers. Every year, between January and March, we race to see all the Oscar-nominated films. We watched _A Complete Unknown_ last night and _The Brutalist_ a couple of weeks ago. The latter far outshines the former as a movie, but both share a common theme: the creative obsession. …
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Trump 2.0 Unleashed

February 2, 2025  •  6 min readA stylized upside-down American flag overlaid with a faded, high-contrast portrait of Donald Trump displaying an angry expression. The image has a stark, glitch-art aesthetic with digital distortion effects.
For my mental health, I've been purposely avoiding the news since the 2024 presidential election. But as I slowly dip my toe back into the news cycle through occasional glimpses of headlines and social media, I'm struck by the disturbing parallels between Trump's first two weeks in office and Hitler's systematic dismantling of German democracy in 1933.
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Chickens to Chatbots: Web Design’s Next Evolution

January 25, 2025  •  8 min readSurreal scene of a robotic chicken standing in the center of a dimly lit living room with retro furnishings, including leather couches and an old CRT television emitting a bright blue glow.
Remember the Subservient Chicken? That quirky Burger King website where you could type commands to make a guy in a chicken suit do stuff? Two decades later, we're still typing commands into boxes—but now we're talking to AI. As designers grapple with a web increasingly built for machines rather than humans, we're facing a familiar challenge: how to create delightful experiences within new technical constraints. From Flash microsites to AI-readable interfaces, web design is evolving once again.
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Economics of Web Dev Are Changing

January 22, 2025  •  3 min read
I love this essay from Baldur Bjarnason, maybe because his stream of consciousness style is so similar to my own. He compares the rapidly changing economics of web and software development to the film, TV, and publishing industries. Before we get to web dev, let's look at the film industry, as disrupted by streaming…
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The Great Office Reset

January 19, 2025  •  14 min readA winter panoramic view from what appears to be a train window, showing a snowy landscape with bare deciduous trees and evergreens against a gray sky. The image has a moody, blue-gray tone and is divided into sections, suggesting movement or multiple shots stitched together.
After spending four frigid days in Toronto with my design team, I've been thinking about what makes in-person collaboration truly valuable—and what doesn't. While tech companies debate return-to-office mandates, I found myself in a conference room with three designers and a whiteboard, tackling a pressing feature deadline. What emerged wasn't just a solution to our immediate challenge, but a deeper understanding of when being together matters and when it doesn't.