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Spend enough time in the dark looking for monsters, and you’ll find you’ve become one.

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Constraints fuel creativity.

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They also smother embers.

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I hate dealing with salespeople so busy selling, they miss what I’m willing to buy.

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I have an inexplicable compulsion to avoid starting on easy tasks. I realize I may be addicted to the self-inflicted stress.

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Write. Edit. Rewrite.

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Scrutinize. Doubt.

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Publish. Cringe.

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Decaf coffee, thick as molasses, boiling over and burning on the bottom of the carafe.

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Industrial fans circulate the acrid fumes across the office.

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If only AI could solve this.

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​I’ve determined that my insulated coffee tumbler is nothing more than an adult sippy cup.

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​Great for microdosing caffeine all day.

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Terrible for enjoying a good cup of coffee.

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Who are design influencers trying to reach when they boast about their AI productivity gains?

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Is it a cost-cutting clientele, now justified in bypassing designers to use the AI they are already subscribed to?

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Or is it the design community that’s fighting against the commoditization of their craft?

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Doing nothing can be a strategy when life comes at you fast.

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But there’s a difference between riding a rip current and freezing in front of oncoming traffic.

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Catastrophizing at 2 in the morning.

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Is it because I’m past my half-life or is it a symptom of being a progressive American in 2026?

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So many problems can be avoided by letting people know, early and often, the challenges you are facing. I can’t stress this enough: good communication is important!

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Hey, Claude. How do I create a NATO for UX professionals to defend against the rise of authoritarianism in technology?

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Stop collecting.

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Start curating.

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Being articulate doesn’t require a collection of words. It requires the discipline to remove the ones that don’t support the idea.

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A meticulously planned legacy can never match a legacy earned through action.

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I don’t live in the past because the person I am there embarrasses me.

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I’m confident that Weapons (2025) is a subversive critique of social media influencers and doom-scrolling-induced brain rot.

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Nothing motivates me faster than hard data.

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No hemming and hawing over possibilities.

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Just cold, hard facts and probabilities.

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Biological drivers that took millions of years to evolve can’t adapt fast enough to deal with the abundance offered by the modern age.

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I know now that self-discipline was never the issue.

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In anticipation of the stream of political ads coming from the right, I’m setting up the scaffolding to successfully kick my television viewing habit.

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I often confuse the search for meaning with the desire to stay relevant.

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I am updating my AI lexicon and will be replacing the term AI Evangelist with Token Pusher.

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20 days with no signal.

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Here is some noise — AI evangelists are not being honest with us or themselves.

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I’ve always struggled with communication—especially when it’s verbal. Yet I never fail to construct lexical barriers and make things harder for myself.

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The odds are against me but I always take the long shot like a degenerate.

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@technogeek75 2011? Where have I been?

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Things to get done—in no particular order:

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@mercurialblonde.bsky.social We’ll have to also consider what our incentives to make art will be.

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Money? Fame? Maybe we’ll be able to push through if those in power see a way to profit from it. But they’ll probably just steal it and commoditize it.

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It’s cheaper.

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