I am an amplifier.
A creative director called me an amplifier once. I thought about the story behind it while trying to write a bio.
Read the essayWriting
This blog originally started as "The Cocktail Napkin" in 1996. It's still my journal of unbridled creativity.
Nose to nose with infinity.
I stood a few feet from the space shuttle Atlantis and started crying, and I couldn't stop.
The flash is easy now.
Building a demo for a job prospect, I realized how easy it is to produce beautiful content that says nothing.
I fancied myself a computer man.
Small talk at an AI mixer left me feeling clueless.
The model of you stays.
Here’s a wacky idea: license employee knowledge to their employers the way we license Photoshop.
Death by a thousand tokens.
You can get every design decision into the file, hand the same file twice to AI and get two different answers.