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Not so Radical Abundance

AI technology is not leading us towards abundance—true abundance already exists around us. Realizing it requires abandoning zero-sum thinking and making conscious sacrifices for our collective benefit.

Crossing

A short story and exploration of how autonomous vehicles reshape urban life, highlighting tensions between efficiency, human connection, and a clever yet controversial social solution devised to manage pedestrian jaywalking.

Gentigration

January 9, 2025

What if gentrification was measured and ensured integration more than exclusion?

Community Built Futures

December 23, 2024

An exploration into how community and society interact, what our challenges are and approaches to solve them.

Buzzing Your Flow

November 22, 2024

An app idea to stop missed meetings by syncing your calendar with charming, can’t-ignore alarms.

Coding Experiments with AI

November 18, 2024

Experimenting with generative tools to code and create generative art helped me create beyond my technical limits, sharpen my ideas, and embrace happy accidents that sparked unexpected creativity.

Non Fungible Vaults

November 12, 2023

We transformed vaults into NFTs, making them portable, transparent, and accessible across marketplaces, complete with an interactive visual display of their content and over-collateralization.

Resilience

Resilience in a community is not simply about recovering from challenging situations but also about preventing them and creating paths for the community to evolve.

Blockchain’s Impact on Trust

Blockchain technology is here to stay – I very much believe in the power and the possibilities it delivers but also that it will become necessary in the future to deal with our increasingly complex world. Let’s look at what trustless and permissionless really mean and how its shifting how we inter- and transact with each other.

Trust

Trust is built on the knowledge of our commonalities and shared experiences. Being curious and open to looking for what we share rather than what's different, trust can be a powerful catalyst for communication and collaboration – it can make things that seem impossible achievable. Let’s look at a few ideas around the structure, the conditions that enable it and how trust is built and sometimes broken.

Belonging

December 22, 2020

Belonging is an essential part of our being. But what is it exactly and how is it created and experienced. A brief dive into how you can belong to a community, how it belongs to you and why we have a longing for it.

About the Word Design by Vilém Flusser

This is one of my most favourite essays. A poetic and philosophical investigation into the meaning and origins of the word design thats revealing and unexpected.