Skating on a Little Lake of Ink
I'm spending the week at FAB26, the Fab Lab network's annual gathering, camped out at MIT
a public explorer of emerging futures
I build little pieces of the future to probe 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
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what’s a probe? →The latest things I’ve made, broken, or figured out. Newest first.
Every Fake You See Is for Real
Tom Cruise promised you real jets, not CGI. You got both.
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Work Harder, Not Smarter
I gave the assistant that runs my calendar the power to refuse me until I name a reason. Turns out the obstacle is the feature: learning science, behavioral economics, and HCI all drew the same line between friction that works for you and friction that works on you.
It's Not the Fake, It's the Lie
A band with no humans in it, an actress who doesn't exist, a five-star write-up sitting on a hundred food-poisoning complaints. The machine isn't the scandal. The unlabeled swap is.
The Log Is Fake
I lost twenty minutes to a website that lets you chop firewood, and it handed me something my work keeps withholding: a finished pile.
Nobody Can Draw a Bicycle
A spider, a fake FBI town, and a bicycle built for AI.
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.
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.