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AI is a bad word
Reverting to a lexicon that wasn't cursed
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Imagination Is the Job Now
The creative class holds the answers. Here's how to start building.
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What the Music Knows
On Thresholds, Uncertainty, and Dancing Through — a 2025 reflection
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Reflecting on Lineage
From Sufi mysticism to vector databases — finding lineage in unexpected places
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80/20 - AI's Predictable Unpredictability
Why the persistence of human complexity follows a mathematical constant.
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Human Agency in the Age of AI Persuasion
A primer on behavior design, how AI amplifies, and what we can do
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Customer Loyalty on AI
How generative AI will completely change the customer loyalty game
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Who needs donuts?
When margins matter more than meaning: design’s ethical exodus
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Keep AI Weird
A shout out to the creatives, the rebels and the troublemakers.
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A founder walks into a bar. Ouch!
Or: It's all about the context. Exploring new AI paradigms.
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The Duality of AI
A blessing and a curse, our savior and destroyer.
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Foxes in the Henhouse
Thoughts about the current and future state of AI regulation and ethical use.
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Formation retrospective
Reflecting on my startup journey — innovation, growth and exit
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Ambient Bionics
Mapping a path towards a discrete form of empowered augmented reality
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IxDA // Interaction 19
My talk on data sovereignty and design tactics for AI from IxDA’s annual conference
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AILA // AI, Ethics + Fairness
A panel discussion on ethics and fairness related to machine intelligence
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Interaction 19 - SF // Redux
My IxDA talk in San Francisco—plus a panel discussion on the ethics of AI
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Hunting Mushrooms
Synchronicity and reciprocity — my lifelong relationship with the mighty fungus
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My Year In Music
Favorite music discoveries from 2018
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Finding Center
An appeal for a centrist mindset to enable meaningful change
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Rotation
Accidental artist — my foray into photographic art-making
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Drifting Into The Valley
Thoughts on privacy and artificial intelligence
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Formation
A brief history of my software startup
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The Art of Discovery
Voyaging into the unknown
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Attention Management
Information overload and some ideas to fix it
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Folksonomic Musicology
DJ's approach to music classification and organization
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Guy Murchie
How I discovered one of my favorite teachers in Joshua Tree
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Transmigration Reboot
My humble attempt to define the meaning of life
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S.S. Vallejo
Mystery and wonder onboard an old ferry boat
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Albany Bulb
Old landfill turned Bay Area art park
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Bruce Connor
Legendary mixed media artist and filmmaker
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Electric Sheep
The generative and collaborative art of Scott Draves
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Burning Man
Short Super8 film I made about Burning Man in 1995
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Rhythmos Issue 2
The second issue documenting Bay Area rave culture in 92-93
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Terry Riley Interview
The godfather of modern minimalist and ambient music
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Terry's Reviews
Early 90s ambient techno tracks reviewed by Terry Riley
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Rhythmos Issue 1
Zine from 1992 about the Bay Area rave scene