PinnedMatching for Causes without ExperimentsHow we can find causal effects when we find a natural experimentFeb 8, 202321Feb 8, 202321
Describe the world in which this is trueWhat world do we describe when we describe the Humane AI Pin?Nov 15, 20237Nov 15, 20237
Towards CommunalityHow do we design for communities? What could that possibly even mean? Why do communities even need 'design’?Aug 29, 20234Aug 29, 20234
Senior Interpretability Enforcement OfficerA short story about what a boring and normal regulatory regime for AI Safety might actually look like.Apr 23, 20233Apr 23, 20233
Small Studies, Bayes, and CausationHow we can still do Causal Analysis with small data.Jan 18, 202318Jan 18, 202318
Published inUX CollectiveWhat (else) does your design cause?In the last article that I posted here I dug into what an experimental design to test the ease of use of a service design might look like…Aug 3, 2022333Aug 3, 2022333
Published inUX CollectiveWhat does your design cause?The first article of a series on UX Design and causal analysis, I introduce an experiment, a dataset, and start analysis to measure…Jun 8, 202268Jun 8, 202268
Published inUX CollectiveHow design needs dataWhy I went to Data Science school to become a better designerNov 4, 20211194Nov 4, 20211194
Strange words, now more than everToday, March 24th 2020, when I see a word more than eight or so letters long that begins with a ‘c’ I know immediately what it is without…Mar 25, 202051Mar 25, 202051
Magical ThinkingBefore a work trip I was instructed to take an anti-malarial drug. We were going to Nigeria for work and the previous team that had gone…Jan 5, 202061Jan 5, 202061
Daily life gets designed“…for most people, geeks or not, modern life is just this incredibly complex problem amenable to no good obvious solution.”Jul 26, 201919Jul 26, 201919
Future archaeologiesI’ve been trying to understand the difference between art and design for years now. I’m not sure why it seemed important to me to parse…Feb 8, 201921Feb 8, 201921
Published inP.S. I Love YouRemembering as an aid to everythingMy friend John Wieja passed away December 25, 2017 in Zhuhai China, a few weeks before he would have turned 42 years old. I don’t know if…Feb 2, 2018101Feb 2, 2018101