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make things. make sense. independent researcher / design theorist 温哥华🇨🇦多伦多

The Making of Making Sense
The Making of Making SenseAug 20, 2026
Tools are Easy, Data is Hard
What organizations really need when it comes to information infrastructure. Plus: is anybody else as bored of “technology” as I am?
The Making of Making Sense
The Making of Making SenseJul 8, 2026
Media for Understanding Situations
After completing a veritable odyssey of a parcel of work, whose result can't be seen but only felt, I took some time to reflect on why I'm even doing any of this.
The Making of Making Sense
The Making of Making SenseMay 16, 2026
Cutting the Gordian Hairball
A meditation on the close of a veritable odyssey, and how Intertwingler—the application server I'm creating—is actually a frontal assault on link rot.
The Making of Making Sense
The Making of Making SenseMar 21, 2026
Slop-Machine Future
The arc of large language models is mediocre, and it bends toward “target procurement”.
The Making of Making Sense
The Making of Making SenseJan 15, 2026
New Year, New…Sletter?
This is the newsletter I intended to write before the end of the year, but was too slammed with holiday corvée labour. Enjoy!
The Making of Making Sense
The Making of Making SenseDec 2, 2025
Making the Solution Transparent
Two ways I've noticed video can actually take less effort than writing, plus a meditation on an alternative to product roadmapping.
The Making of Making Sense
The Making of Making SenseOct 16, 2025
AI Meh-ptic
Another sporadic attempt to calibrate my attitude toward what we’re currently calling “artificial intelligence”, and its use as a prosthetic for writing software.
The Making of Making Sense
The Making of Making SenseOct 4, 2025
What Do You Do When a Piece of Your Stack Goes Bad?
The risks to your software supply chain, especially these days, include a lot more than just malware.
The Making of Making Sense
The Making of Making SenseSep 12, 2025
Why Pivot to Protocols
The current state of Sense Atlas (well, more accurately Intertwingler), and an announcement about office hours.
The Making of Making Sense
The Making of Making SenseJul 3, 2025
Making Sense of Sense Atlas
The goals and principles underpinning my nascent organizational cartography kit.
The Making of Making Sense
The Making of Making SenseJun 23, 2025
Two Christenings and a Funeral
Emerging from my cave to announce that the projects I've been working on for almost two decades are now online, so it's time to tell their stories.
The Making of Making Sense
The Making of Making SenseMar 6, 2025
À Propos Current Events
A survey of one small aspect of the current (geo)political situation, and what I'm doing about it.