Welcome to my Online Home. I identify myself as a product designer. I design software products and primarily write about them. Currently, building a curation product-&-protocol called Metamind. I used to write a NewsLetter called Productize Philosophy.
CHECK OUT essaysDesigning Products is designing in the Thought space and philosophers are the intellectual boxers that can really teach you how to think.
My philosophical leanings leads me in all directions and brings me back to a core understanding for how we are and what we wish to be. I create products to optimize for this understanding of life. Philosophy helps me to hone my thinking in first-principles and create a Language system that precedes a Design System for clear product thinking and discussions.
I also draw from The Art of Persuasion which is like a UI on Human Conditioning. It helps me learn how people buy into ideas and will react to designs.
Here's a link to the ongoing epistemology for my theory on Product/Interaction Design.
I am currently working on a "non-prescriptive" curation platform code-named as Project Metamind. You can check out the Manifesto here.
You could really begin with any of these 3 essays:
- Building E-Mail from First Principles: Basecamp's HEY
- A rather "philosophical" approach to understanding human nature
- The W.A.R.S. framework to design a “sincere” Notification System
I like to compartmentalize my essays into two broad categories: Designing Information and Examining Products. Check it all out here.
This website is a collection of everything I love. Product Design, Philosophy and Art of Persuasion often intersect to create my essays. Consumer Tech are some of my favorite products to think about. I like to think that my job here is to provide you a map through these landscapes. The ideal way to follow me is through my Weekly Email NewsLetter called Productize Philosophy.
What feels like my life's work, Metamind is aimed at unifying the creator and consumer into the persona of a curator who mindfully consume and curate valuable ideas for your rich, "digital garden" that can be creatively shared and cultivated with the world. Although, when you simply think of Metamind as a "digital garden for evolving content", a load of possibilities open up.
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