Featured Essays

Long-form writing on topics ranging from design and technology, to political theory, to art history, and beyond.

How to Exchange Critique

May 20219 min read Design Critique

Learn to give better design feedback, discover your critique style, and get more comfortable receiving feedback.

Why Critique?

May 202111 min read Design Critique

A deep dive into what design critique is for, why practitioners should care, and different ways of framing the idea of criticism.

Into the World of Images

January 201924 min read Images Technics Dialectics Aesthetics Semiotics (Structural)

What does it mean to be as an image?

The Aesthetics of Efficiency

December 201850 min read Aesthetics Capitalism Ideology

Automation produces efficiency culture, with its own distinct ethics and aesthetics

Recent Notes

Rolling, work-in-progress notes, images, clippings, and threads.

Address red flags early on and with candor.

Communication Client Relations Disagreement Building Alignment

Clients are cats. You can't herd them.

Building Alignment Communication Client Relations

Course Marketplaces

Online Learning Education History of Online Education 2000s 2010s

Critique is important, but not always from clients.

Critique Design Review Feedback Design Process

Design is a sense.

Everyone's a specialist with their own style.

Generalists General Specialists Specialization Teamwork