Parasites, Symbiont, and the Scabs

Building within an Ecosystem

A short (and evolving) writeup about building a rehype plugin in typescript

Legibility in Work and Fiction

My path to technology and design is rooted in fiction. I realized this by when I revisited the source material. Here's a little note about Cryptonomicon, being legible, and startups.

Systems Decay When Shared

Project Planning with and against core beliefs, with an illustrated example

Belief-based Planning

Project Planning with and against core beliefs, with an illustrated example

The 2024 Newsletter Plan

The plan for 2024's newsletter and writing

Blocking the Entrance to the Rabbit Hole

A bit of a meandering path down the mechanical keyboard and alternative layout rabbit hole, and back out again.

Next Steps for Diverge

An Old Kind of New

Renewing Spaces

Skill Spalling

Learning with Pressure, Time, and Surface Area

Being a Good Amateur

Avoiding Kits

Reconsidering the language and tools of Getting Started

Homeric Design Strategy

Kitbashing Experience

Putting our different experiences together to make something new

Functional Immersion

Visceral Control

Peripherals

Automating Research Recruiting

How to think about and implementation automation in a user research recruiting process.

Thinking through Research Automation

Automation and orchestration in research ops

Zombie Nonprofits

Migration and Circumstance

Designers in the Military

A first-hand account of working with military professionals and design

Bootstrapping Infrastructure in the Public Interest

On Dumb Pleasures

Professional Warning People

A quick look at strategic warning intelligence and the professional Cassandra

Breathing In and Out, or Two Approaches to Design Research

Craft, Catalyst, and Expertise

Considering craft-based disciplines and catalyzing expertise

Covid Anxiety: A Foresight Game

A serious game about making serious decisions in a crisis

Legibility in Design

Hidden in the Shallows

Reconstructive Design Process

Consciously metabolizing past design work to create something new

Memory Toolkits

Wearing Technology

Power and Fantasy — Hamcus SS21

War against Stagnation

The Anatomy of a Research Recruitment Email

The Problem with Validity

The Decay of Digital Things

A book chapter I wrote on how internet connected objects decay

Reflexive Reflective

Designing Participant Experiences

Thinking about research operations from a service design lens

Some Design Research Principles

All Quiet on the Productivity Front

Sponge Cycles

Identify and define the cycles where you absorb and become

Speculative Surplus

Full Hamcus: Finding the Spark in Sci-fi Workwear

Platform Insurrection

Reflecting on 2020

Designing trust relationships in research with Knowsi

Coordinating global cities research Knowsi case study

Diverge Weekly Issue 13 The Endemic Issue

Diverge Weekly Issue 12 The Constrained Issue

Diverge Weekly Issue 11 The Waiting Issue

Diverge Weekly Issue 10 The Flattened Issue

Diverge Weekly Issue 9 The Dependencies Issue

Diverge Weekly Issue 8 The Just Tired Issue

Diverge Weekly Issue 7 The Gradual Opening Issue

Diverge Weekly Issue 6 The Captured Issue

Diverge Weekly Issue 5 The First Reflection Issue

Diverge Weekly Issue 4 The Cycles Issue

Diverge Weekly Issue 3 The Uncertainty Issue

Diverge Weekly Issue 2 The Global Pandemic Issue

Diverge Weekly Issue 1 - The Afghan Peace Talk Issue

On Remote Work and the Coronavirus

Diverge Weekly Issue 0 - The Prototype

Failing States Fail Terrorists Too

Import your Audible Library to Goodreads

A More Intentional Wardrobe

Reflecting on 2019

The Design Researcher’s Everyday Carry

Planning your Design Research Trip

Better Notes for Design Research

Exporting PDFs with Next JS

How to Design the Future of Food in 4 Hours

HMW How Might We?

Building Co-operative Design Briefs

Benadryl and Parachord

Bureaucratic Mysteries

A Spotter’s Guide to Social Product Ventures

Business Model Canvas-like tools for critiquing social enterprises building software