Lists

reading nowfrom the shelf

1. 01[~]What Is History? — E. H. Carr
2. 02[~]Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within — Natalie Goldberg

reading next

1. 01[ ]A Philosophy of Software Design — John Ousterhout
2. 02[ ]The Pragmatic Programmer — Andrew Hunt, David Thomas
3. 03[ ]Mythologies — Roland Barthes

takingcourses in progress

1. 01[~]AI Coding Crash Course — Matt Pocock
2. 02[~]AI for UI — Emil Kowalski · 2026 Course is being developed as I’m taking it.

1. 01Redesigned this site around a desk · October
2. 02Started the design-skills repo, and the /skills page that reads it · October
3. 03Reviewed Kano's model against Product Delight · October
4. 04Glovesheet into early testing with coaches · autumn
5. 05Completed Tuesday evenings at the atelier · autumn
6. 06Cursor Theatre · October
7. 07Scanned the peony and the gym; wrote Spatial Artifacts · April
8. 08Product Delight, the framework · March
9. 09Structuring Design — Ulysses Voelker

coursestaking and taken · 2026-10-24

1. 01[~]AI Coding Crash Course — Matt Pocock
2. 02[~]AI for UI — Emil Kowalski · 2026 Course is being developed as I’m taking it.
3. 03[x]Full Stack Engineering — Launch School · 2018–2020 Over a year of front- and back-end engineering: JavaScript, Ruby, SQL, HTML and CSS.
4. 04[x]AI Evals for Engineers & PMs — Hamel Husain, Shreya Shankar · 2025 A month on evaluating what a model-backed product does.
5. 05[x]AI Coding for Real Engineers — Matt Pocock · 2025
6. 06[x]Build DeepSearch in TypeScript — Matt Pocock · 2025
7. 07[x]The Joy of React — Josh Comeau · 2023
8. 08[x]Animations on the Web — Emil Kowalski · 2024
9. 09[x]Making the Invisible Visible: Designing with Grids — Maurizio Masi, Letterform Archive A two-day workshop on the construction of grids.
10. 10[x]Anatomy & Écorché — Golden Gate Atelier Took a challenging 6-month anatomy and écorché class, studying human bones and muscles to understand their impact on body form.