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2025
May
Beyond Sweetgreen
April
On Tennis RPO
Ranking the Unrankable: Building a Better System for Oregon High School Tennis
On the Simulation of Governance
My personal rant about platform decay
When the Cloud Falls, It Lands on Us
Not a Roadmap
When User Experience (UX) no longer explains the work: Interaction Engineering as concept
Libraries Weren’t the Point: Fiscal Archetypes for Speculative Civics
March
The Interface Is The Interview
Civic Tech, Local Impact: Launching the Portland Digital Corps
On Doing What You Can
February
The Interface Trap: How Administrative Systems Create Unsolvable Problems
Context-Aware Agents: Designing for Alignment in AX
Some thoughts on hiring, quality & public service
Notes on Modernization and System Change
Why would you take a promotion without a raise?
Service Design for AI: Why Human Experience (HX) Matters
January
On adapting my coaching philosophy
Writing about personal stuff
On Goals & Invisible Lines
On Secret Hobbies (or About My First Talk of 2025)
On Resolutions
2024
December
From Tools to Territory: How Systems Become Infrastructure
On Lasting Resilience
Scoring Baseball’s Golden At-Bat: Why Finland’s Pesäpallo Already Has a Better Solution
Dismantling Things Takes Time
November
What I’ve learned about posting in a post-Twitter world
October
Rushing into the elevator to avoid saying hello
Wrote about that one time I was a game designer
July
On AI and Care
June
On House Rules
April
Robbed of thoughts
Civil Futures and the speculative present
March
Using a AAAA major league + winter major league to develop fringe prospects
February
Why the pricing out of youth sports so personal
January
8 Arenas of Action Matrix
Assessing the worthiness of posting in the AI era
2023
November
On social media platforms & separation of concerns
Why we ought to be (civil) cartographers, not “experience” designers
Bringing (advanced) stats to junior tennis
October
Measuring the impact of (design) consequences
Service design wasn’t designed to serve everybody
On Putting Yourself Out There
September
On Rage Tweets, Reddit & the painful silence of a post-twitter world
July
Notes from the age of disengagement
Bifurcated modalities
The endless cycle of blogging
May
Why I keep coaching
A Parliament of Neighbors
April
On art & design
January
Motivating (or setting realistic goals when your team loses a lot)
2022
November
American History Booklist
Back to blogging again?
June
Postcards From Vimpeli
2021
December
On lineups, ladders & high school tennis
the-designers-share-of-the-problem
November
The Designer's Share of the Problem
May
The hidden cost of everything
The cost of grey spaces
The cost of trust
Recommendations are poison
Policy Harm
Liminal UX
What is it?
Improving Oregon’s broken high school tennis format
2016
September
How does a guy from America start following Finnish baseball?
2015
June
Naming the courts
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