Nobody Can Draw a Bicycle
A spider, a fake FBI town, and a bicycle built for AI.
a public explorer of emerging futures
I build little pieces of the future to find out what they mean.
Experiments, speculative artifacts, and field notes from the seam where technology meets being human — shared out loud, while they’re still messy.
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Me and a friend at the Bench
The Board
what’s a probe? →The latest things I’ve made, broken, or figured out. Newest first.
I Built a Robot to Read My Mind and Believed It Anyway.
I trusted a tool I made to tell me what mattered, until it disagreed with itself over a single misplaced space. A field guide to the confident outputs worth checking twice.
I was looking for a Nigel I could download
I wanted Nigel from Devil Wears Prada to walk into my bedroom. What showed up was a pile of apps and a piece of cardboard.
A Meteor Fell and I Couldn't Find the Crowd
A meteor boom over Boston, a real-time town square that had quietly fragmented into a hundred private instruments, and why the fastest civic response in 2026 is to build the answer instead of post it. Plus Watch Duty, a 48-hour moving model, and someone in a blueberry-muffin costume.
The Card Apple Would Rather You Not Use
Why digital-first wallets still mail you a piece of metal.
The Pocket Test
A field guide for naming what your phone is actually doing on a walk. Five answers, one honest question.
Some apps want you to go outside.
On the small genre of software that uses the screen as a door, not a wall.
Off My Board
The good stuff from the Bench, plus the unfinished things I’m still chasing — in your inbox most weeks. One curious human, writing to other curious humans. No hype, no “in today’s fast-paced world.”
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Work with me
The same exploring, pointed at your world — working prototypes and thinking-alongside for leaders and teams who want to meet what’s coming head-on.