Field notes · Written from inside the work
Useful signals.
Tested in the build.
No recycled trend reports. Just sharp observations, working frameworks, and lessons earned while shipping emerging technology.
01The advantage isn’t the model. It’s what you build around it.
The model is becoming infrastructure. Durable advantage comes from the context, workflow, evaluation, trust, and feedback systems wrapped around it.
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02Interfaces are escaping the screen.
Apple Vision Pro makes the product brief spatial: hierarchy becomes distance, input becomes attention, and the room becomes part of the interface.
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03Gaussian splatting changes what it means to capture a place.
A faster, more photoreal path from photographs to navigable 3D scenes is turning capture into a new medium for products, training, and memory.
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04Prototype the decision, not just the interface.
A five-stage framework for using today’s AI tools to reduce uncertainty, collect evidence, and decide whether an idea deserves the next level of investment.
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05Human-computer interaction is becoming human-world interaction.
Multimodal systems can see, hear, speak, and orient in space. The design challenge is making the world more understandable without making people feel observed.
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06The skunkworks operating system.
Small teams move fast only when the organization gives them a clear mission, protected autonomy, evidence-driven kill criteria, and a path back into the business.
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