Product design essays

Why ethical language without hard constraints keeps harmful systems running.

~1 min read For ai safety teams.

Institutional harm is often priced in; accountability means disrupting that bargain.

~1 min read For institutions teams.

How AI threat scores become self-fulfilling violence in policing and warfare.

~1 min read For ai teams.

Designing institutions with end-of-life protocols instead of endless growth.

~1 min read For governance teams.

Distinguishing people-first maintenance from upkeep that protects brittle systems.

~1 min read For maintenance teams.

How capital encloses waiting, boredom, and sleep to monetize human time.

~1 min read For time teams.

Modern efficiency offloads volatility onto people when buffers disappear.

~1 min read For resilience teams.

Systems built for an imaginary “reasonable user” punish real-world complexity.

~1 min read For design teams.

System architecture, not intent, makes harm the default—and can be redesigned to remove it.

~1 min read For safety teams.

how care can replace coercion across governance, labor, and healthcare.

~1 min read For governance teams.

embracing Universal Crip Time to transform productivity into a communal practice.

~1 min read For crip time teams.

reimagining documentation as a tool for equity rather than exclusion.

~1 min read For documentation teams.