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What I Learned From Living in My Basement
This summer, I moved into my basement.
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What Does Excellence Look Like Right Now?
I’ve been thinking a lot about what happens when the ground shifts underneath you. Not dramatically, necessarily. Sometimes it’s just a gradual realization that the things you’ve relied on for years are still there, but they don’t quite work the way they used to.
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What Happens When You Stop Designing for Everyone?
Berlin made me think differently about design.
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The platforms change. The fundamentals don’t.
Every few weeks someone announces that WordPress is dead.
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The work isn’t what takes the time
Most of what slows a project down isn't the work itself. It's the stuff around the work: the back-and-forth emails, the stall while someone tracks down a login, the decision that sits in an inbox for a week, the context getting rebuilt every time the project moves between people.
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Why I rebuilt my Design Guidelines
The new LKI online experience went live in April 2026. The reason I rebuilt it isn't the reason most people assume.
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Working with entrepreneurs and makers
Working alongside entrepreneurs and makers has shaped not just how I design — but how I think.
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Designing with People Not for Them
Good design doesn’t happen in isolation. It’s built through conversation, collaboration, and a shared sense of purpose.
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You can’t direct what you don’t understand
AI is changing how work gets done faster than almost anything before it. That's not really up for debate anymore. What is still up for debate, and what I think matters more than anything else right now, is who stays in control of that change: the tool, or the person using it.
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Muddling through
Leadership wasn't something I studied or set out to master. It's something I learned by doing. I didn't go to school for management or strategy. I trained as a designer, a maker, someone who brings ideas to life through process and practice.
