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The Garden

A collection of essays, notes, talks, podcasts, and half-baked explorations I'm always tending to.

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(Re)Introducing Forwardkind Cooperative

(Re)Introducing Forwardkind Cooperative

Sharing the new mission for a shared-ownership collective.

5 days ago
Tools for Thought as Cultural Practices, not Computational Objects

Tools for Thought as Cultural Practices, not Computational Objects

MIT Thinking with Sand, Online +3

Talk over 5 years ago

Common Misconceptions in AI

A roboticist breaks down common misconceptions about what's hard and easy in robotics. A...

Smidgeon about 1 year ago
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What is AI's UI?

What is AI's UI?

Hanselminutes

Podcast over 1 year ago
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Barefoot Developers, AI, and End-user programming

Barefoot Developers, AI, and End-user programming

Localfirst.fm

Podcast over 1 year ago
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Possible Futures for AI in Interaction Design

Possible Futures for AI in Interaction Design

Complementary

Podcast over 1 year ago
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Becoming an AI-native Designer

Becoming an AI-native Designer

Dive Club

Podcast almost 2 years ago
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Visual Storytelling in Tech, Designing for Al, and the Future of Coding

Visual Storytelling in Tech, Designing for Al, and the Future of Coding

Devtools FM

Podcast almost 2 years ago
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AI Tool Design and Tending a Digital Garden

AI Tool Design and Tending a Digital Garden

Sketchnote Army

Podcast about 2 years ago
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Language Models, AI, and Digital Gardens

Language Models, AI, and Digital Gardens

Shoptalk Show

Podcast over 2 years ago
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On Digital Gardening

On Digital Gardening

The Informed Life

Podcast over 2 years ago
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Nope

Nope

BBC's Digital Human

Podcast almost 3 years ago
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Why We Write and Language Models

Why We Write and Language Models

Clerestory

Podcast almost 3 years ago
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The Dark Forest and Generative AI

The Dark Forest and Generative AI

Clerestory

Podcast about 3 years ago
The Dark Forest and Generative AI

The Dark Forest and Generative AI

Proving you're a human on a web flooded with generative AI content

Essay about 3 years ago
The Dark Forest and Generative AI

The Dark Forest and Generative AI

Proving you're a human on a web flooded with generative AI content

Essay about 3 years ago
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Want to be Great at UX Research? Take a Cue from Cultural Anthropology

Want to be Great at UX Research? Take a Cue from Cultural Anthropology

The Stack Overflow Podcast

Podcast almost 4 years ago
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On Digital Gardening

On Digital Gardening

Reverb

Podcast almost 4 years ago

Algorithmic Transparency

Algorithms that make their reasoning visible

Pattern over 4 years ago
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Fortress of Solitude

Fortress of Solitude

Frontend Heroes

Podcast over 4 years ago
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Visual Programming

Visual Programming

Metamuse

Podcast over 4 years ago
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Digital Disembodiment

Digital Disembodiment

Hope in Source

Podcast almost 5 years ago
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Unique Roles of a Developer

Unique Roles of a Developer

She's in Tech

Podcast about 5 years ago
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Growing Digital Gardens and Tending the Web

Growing Digital Gardens and Tending the Web

The Swyx Mixtape

Podcast about 5 years ago
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Technology as Process

Technology as Process

Hope in Source

Podcast over 5 years ago
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Embodied Knowledge - Part 2

Embodied Knowledge - Part 2

Hope in Source

Podcast over 5 years ago
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Digital Anthropology, Digital Gardens and Illustrated Notes

Digital Anthropology, Digital Gardens and Illustrated Notes

RoamFM

Podcast over 5 years ago
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Embodied Knowledge - Part 1

Embodied Knowledge - Part 1

Hope in Source

Podcast almost 6 years ago
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Open Source as a Gift Economy

Open Source as a Gift Economy

Hope in Source

Podcast almost 6 years ago
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The Power of Mental Models

The Power of Mental Models

React Podcast

Podcast about 6 years ago

JavaScript Bits You Skipped the First Time Around

Illustrated notes on advanced but fundamental topics in JavaScript

Note over 6 years ago

JavaScript Bits You Skipped the First Time Around

Illustrated notes on advanced but fundamental topics in JavaScript

Note over 6 years ago
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Turning Technical Concepts into Approachable Illustrated Metaphors

Turning Technical Concepts into Approachable Illustrated Metaphors

egghead.io Podcast

Podcast almost 7 years ago