Journal
7 essays · 15 topics
Est. 2025 — 2026
Writing on product, design & engineering
The AI That Forgets You
Every AI assistant you've used starts fresh each conversation. Ad networks have had an uninterrupted record of you for 20 years. That gap is not an accident.
The Prompt You Never Typed
Your browser history is the richest context document that exists about you. Ad networks have been reading it for decades. AI hasn't started yet.
16 April 2026 · 9 min
Read →The Cookie Banner Comedy: A Dark Pattern in Three Acts
GDPR gave Europeans the legal right to say no to tracking. The ad industry spent years making that right almost impossible to exercise.
9 April 2026 · 8 min
Read →Your Browser is a Stock Exchange (And You're Not the Trader)
Every time you load a webpage, an invisible auction runs in under 100ms. Hundreds of companies bid on you. You don't get a cut.
3 April 2026 · 9 min
Read →Why privacy is a design problem
Privacy tools have a user experience problem. Until we fix that, we'll keep building things nobody uses.
14 April 2025 · 7 min
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