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A lot of different things live on this site — essays on design and teaching, hardware builds, ride logs, a podcast. If you’re new, these are good doors in.

On making and teaching

• The Harness, Not the Agent — why the scaffolding around AI is the thing worth teaching.
• Against Nudge — choice architecture, design, and who gets to decide.
• On Making Makerspaces — what I learned building them at DePaul.
• On the Extinction of Experience — what we lose when we stop touching the world.

On hardware and software

• AI Meets Atoms — a hardware reality check for the software-eats-everything crowd.
• ourss — nine days building an RSS reader for the weird web.
• Meshtastic and a New Game Console — off-grid radios and the start of a console build.

On two wheels

• Five Favorite Bike Rides in Rockbridge County — where I actually ride.
• RAGBRAI 2026: The Complete Ride Log — the whole trip, day by day.

In conversation

• An Interview with Josh Tsui — games, Chicago, and the industry.
• This Should Work podcast + talks — the rest of my writing and speaking.