The Machines are Deciding Now. What Becomes of Us?

I fear, some days, that my own human reason—the capacity to slow down and make intentional decisions by reflecting on evidence, values, context, and consequence, in community, rather than isolation—is slipping beyond measure as the pressure and convenience to cede decisions to machines eclipses my perception.

Substack, 2026

I Don’t Know What’s Real Anymore

“My friend texted me the other day, and I could tell she used AI to write the text. It just wasn’t her voice or grammar. I get using AI to generate work emails…but this? I thought we both felt safe saying anything to each other, even if it’s messy. Now, I don’t know anymore.”

Confusion over what’s real and what’s artificial became the new baseline of personhood this year, blurred further when the reality we face is a daily horror show.

Substack, 2025

Living Through an AI Takeover Without Losing Your Soul

As AI gets easier to use, the burden on earth grows heavier, and it’s the most vulnerable communities who pay the highest toll. Can we truly say that a tool is “easy to use” if its usage is breaking an already ailing planet? Can we really call it “intelligence” if it’s built to ignore its own consequences?

Substack, 2025

Designers Have a Seat At the Table. Now, What Should They Do With It?

Amid layoffs, burnout, and the rise of AI, designers are questioning how to build a more inclusive and sustainable future for themselves and each other.

Fast Company, March 2023

How Do You Deal with Life in Times of High Industrial Concentration?

Grappling with life as a designer and a person amid the rise of monopolies.

Substack, 2024

On Identity, Solidarity, & Parenting in Late Capitalism with Claire Stapleton

CS: I don’t know if people can fully divorce their identity from work, but there are people operating from a sense of groundedness in what their skills are and what they want to contribute to the world. And when you have that groundedness, you can deploy that in many different contexts and environments…I really do feel like a lot of this is about developing more of a sense of self.

Substack, 2023

How Deindustrialization Shaped My Working-Class Family

Dad stood at the edge of the shore, witnessing the ocean for the first time, at 40. His green eyes peered into the horizon, unstirred by the waves that crashed into his bare feet, liberated from the weight of his factory boots.

In These Times, 2022

The Potential, the Pitfalls, and the Long Fight for Accessible Tech with Prasanna Venkatesh

PV: Accessibility, to me, doesn’t just conform to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines only; it means I am able to use the same product or service in a different way compared to abled folks. Accessibility allows people with limited capabilities to be able to operate independently to some extent. At its root, it is a practical approach to designing facilities or workflows that ensures equitable access to anyone trying to use them.

Substack, 2022

There’s a Crack in the Pavement

The day I met Massimo Vignelli I was a bundle of nerves. It was Spring 2011, my first time in New York City, and my mind buzzed from all the stimulation around me–the blaring sound of the taxi horns, the stench of pizza and garbage hitting my face, the hypnosis of the jumbo screens in Times Square. I scurried my feet throughout the city, eventually arriving at the Upper East Side of Manhattan, where Vignelli lived.

UX Collective, 2021