Seduced by Sensemaking
They say smart people join cults because their minds crave cohesion. Basically, smart people are suckers for an explanation that makes sense.
Essays
Lessons from the Cisco Icon Set
If you designed an icon set from scratch to diagram something important about your world, what would it look like?
Interruptibility is a Superpower
Last week, I wrote three conference abstracts while pausing about every half-sentence to interact with my toddler.
This workshop will—
“Yes, it’s a pink circle.”
—help participants to expand and apply their knowledge about—
“Oh, you want daddy to draw a circle? Okay!”
etc etc etc
I finished the
What Does It Mean to Squander?
I’ve been wondering if there is a productivity book for those of us who spend all of our time chestfeeding, or, if away from our baby at work, stuck in the lactation room whenever we can find a moment between meetings.
It turns out everything I thought I knew
Maintenance as a Creative Act
Why did I never question my desire to "grow my newsletter"?
Ambivalence, Irreversibility, and Leaning Into the Wonky Parts
I gave birth eleven weeks ago, which means I now have the culturally fraught experience of living in a postpartum body, even if my postpartum body happens to be that of a man. And my body exists in a particular way in relation to my baby—I wake in the
I Do Not Wish to Become a Better Me
Feeling unprepared is not a problem to be solved.