Archive

2018

The Tyranny of Progress
A Matter of Will

2017

Political Systems Through the Lens of Chaos Theory
Ephemeral, Timeless, Eternal
How We Pay People to Become Idiots

2016

Decentralized Censorship
Public Happiness
Industrial Craftsmanship
Athanatizein
The Room
Resurrection
Design Reductionism
Self Expression
5 Anti-Principles of Good Design
The World Beyond Experience
Culture as Shared Taste
Against Creativity
Water and Wine

2015

This Will Kill That
Virtue
Designing Action
The Letterform in a World Without Handwriting
Starting a Newsletter
Antilibrary
Evergreen
Standardized Interfaces
Durability via Superfluity
Why Modern Design Is so Bland
The Impossibility of Permanence in a Consumer Society
Design Through the Lens of the Human Condition
Consumer Media
On Style
Craft
On Writing for One's Self
Works of the Spirit
On Contemplation
Horizons
Anti-materialism
For Ever
The Semantic Rift
The Esteemer
Material
Beyond Utility

2014

Inequality of Power and the Role of Capitalism
Consumer Collectivism and the Inauthentic Individual
The Reading Habit (Continued)
The Reading Habit
Civilization
What Is Art?
A Moment Is Enough
Emeralds of the Mind
Masks
The Two Minds
Reason
The Problem of Inequality
The Role of the Press
Design Rot
The Man of Equality
Stereo Content
Single Feature Tools
Free to Create
The End of Man
Self Interest Pt II
Common Purpose

2013

Crystallization
Truth Pt II
Four Ways to Respond
Venom
Truth
Galleries
Choice
Manipulators
Balance
The Ninth Wave
The Bridge
Free Will
Less Biased
Design v. Art
The Observer
Simplified Complexity
3 Parts of Good Visual Interface Design
The Narrative
Education v. Manipulation
The Price You Pay
The Measure of Man
The Idealist
Credit
Empathy
The Argument
Bias Pt II
Communion Pt II
Communion
Creativity
Fuel
The Free Trap
Bias
Income Inequality
Illusion of Control
Neither Altruism, Nor Selfishness
Positioned
Schools of Thought
Freedom
Self Interest
Terrain Pt II

2012

Terrain
Affirmation of Life
Armed
Mirrors
Fragments of the Ideal
Purpose
A Good Reader
Nutritious Design
Installing Toto on OS X Mountain Lion
On Arguments
Day 30: Epilogue
The Cult of Progress
Forgotten Values
Of the Golden Future Time
On Value
Genuine Art
Torn Paper Edges
The Soul of a Typeface
Communion v. Publishing
Design Values
Gravity
Invisible Design
Forming Letters
All the Same
Objective v. Subjective Design
Design for Focus
Door Hinges
Last In, First Out
Part of the Problem
This Is Resistance Speaking
The Price of Beauty
The Cerebral Designer
Ira Furor Brevis Est
Give Sight
The Limits of Testing
Judge
The Texture of Pixels
The Value of Words
The Greek Fret
The Road to Hyperborea
Day 0: An Essay a Day
Free Ad Circulation
Capacity to Consume Beauty
Tolstoy on Mass Media
Contradicting Yourself
Transient Content
Attributing Malice To Incompetence
Timeless Design
Planned Obsolescence
A Straight Line
Moral Design
The Tracery
Brand Dilution
On Progress
Start With Yourself
Write To Write
Clear Ground
Philosophy for the 21st Century
Friction
The Third Type
Cheap Architecture
Repeating Ornament
The Value of Unoriginality
Desensitization to Art
Reflecting the Critic
Writer's Block
The Monotony of Change
No Context
Byzantine Arches
The Ornament Extreme
My Chapter in Smashing Book 3
Primal v. Cerebral Design
Obsession with Recency
LESS Compilers
A False Trade
Pushed Aside
Avoid Extremes
Be Water
Two Interfaces
The Thread
Moscow Metro
Two Forces

2011

Too Plain
Restart With a Clean Slate
Pythagorean Design
Artificial Order
Eudaimonia
On Privacy
Silence
The Age of Noise
On Perfection
IA Writer Review
Soma
Selfless Selfishness
Dead States
Chains
Commenters
Inspiration Diet
Alive
Justice
Did You Seek It Out?
Illusive Terms
Introducing Yattery
Twitter's Contradiction

2010

Learning From Claude Hopkins' Scientific Advertising
Lessons Learned From The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding
LESS.app Icon
iTunes 10 Icon, Take 2
My iTunes 10 Icon Replacement
Competing With Paper
Do You Hate Your Work Enough?
Syncing Or Sharing?
Less.js Will Obsolete CSS
Obsession With Tools
The Problem With Disqus
Would You Pay For Blog Content?
Inspiration Kills
The Open Fallacy
Resistance
Getting Started With Toto, a Tiny WordPress Killer
tl;dr
Content Farms
Know When To Finish
Product Names
How to Argue

2009

Listen To What They Do
Focus
Outsourced Creativity
Defiance