A publication on product craft
Essays on the personal data at the core of most products, the surfaces where people meet it, and — increasingly — what changes when something else acts on it. Here's how I'm thinking about it, from someone still in the work.
The latest anchor
As agents become a surface, the trust burden goes up, not down. Who is reaching into the data, and on whose behalf.
The spine — three pillars
The personal core that decides whether a product works, and the trust that honoring it requires.
How people and data meet: visual, messaging, developer, conversational, and increasingly agentic.
The experiments, and what making things teaches.
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