it's so crazy, sometimes you feel like everything has already been invented and then something pops up that is so obviously like 'why didn't we do this 50 years ago?' would love to see how they're doing the multipart mold - internal bossed measurements and lines would likely be separate segment(s)?
Apr 30, 2026 at 1:25 PM
What's Wrong With This Idea?
One of my favorite questions is: “What’s wrong with this idea?” It drives the conversation away from why the idea is great, and toward finding its flaws. That is invaluable in technology.
New Design Congress (@newdesigncongress@mastodon.world)
4 Posts, 7 Following, 128 Followers · An independent research group confronting the gap between what is said to be happening and what is actually happening in digitised societies.
the new product designer (and why we’re getting it wrong)
100 years of whatever this will be
What if all these weird tech trends actually add up to something? Last time, we explored why various bits of trendy technology are, in my o...
Invention Cards 3.0: Stories
Last month, after a long hiatus, I showed invention.cards to a friend in SF and came away unsatisfied. Indeed, the work was not yet done . Three things drove this revision: It felt incomplete. The experience was built around T-shaped navigation, focusing on a specific card and showing only their ancestors and descendants. It was hard to see where you were in time, hard to feel the shape of history, and ultimately was far removed from the way a tech tree should feel . The connections matter more than the nodes. What's most interesting to me was not
We used to get excited about technology. What happened?
Innovation that truly serves us all is in scarce supply. That’s a problem.
We've made the world too complicated
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/WildJungle%2842249210%29.jpeg We've made the world too complicated. I'm writing this with technology I...
The Crooked Timber of AI
The philosophical perils of conflating discoveries and inventions, and how to overcome them
Our Longing for Inconvenience
People are pining for old technologies—CD players, VCRs, Walkmans. What’s behind our longing for inconvenience?
Prof. Judy Fan: Cognitive Tools for Making the Invisible Visible
Prof. Judy Fan: Cognitive Tools for Making the Invisible Visible
SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD on Twitter / X
we'd love to make this happen! happy to discuss and brainstorm any time :) we even wrote a little bit about it in the past, check out this old post:https://t.co/krgMioxZtb— SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD (@mold_time) September 15, 2025
Four months ago we asked: what if technology didn't feel so… hollow? Last night, we gathered the people who've been asking the same question — and launched what comes next. @aish.bsky.social @zoew.bsky.social
Resonant Computing
Last night the Resonant Computing Lab launched in NYC. A fund for building software that leaves people nourished, not drained. 1,200+ people have signed the manifesto. Now there's funding to turn principles into practice. resonantcomputinglab.com
What if technology didn’t feel so… hollow? Some friends and I just released a manifesto about a world where tech leaves us feeling nourished (along with an evolving list of theses about how we can build it) resonantcomputing.org
The Resonant Computing Manifesto
resonantcomputing.orgread the article making this argument and it just reinforced the 3d printing analogy. the industry hype with AI is 100x larger, but the pattern was a similar "this is going to change humanity" to "this is going to revolutionize specific industries" to "this will be a fun hobby for eccentrics"
Adam Conover
I’m sorry but “everyone is going to use AI to code their own apps” sounds like “everyone is going to learn HTML and code their own websites.“ like … have you met people? no they’re not
