Writing

Notes from the desk & the road

Short pieces on design craft — usually the reasoning behind a Toybox playbook — plus travel notes, recipes, and the occasional opinion.

Craft notes

Three Labels, Six Surfaces

May 22, 2026

The smallest interaction rule I have, and the one I find myself repeating in every bulk-action review.
Craft notes

The Feature I Keep Refusing to Ship

May 19, 2026

A note on subtraction — why I write up the features a product pointedly does not have, and why the next reorg is the reason.
Craft notes

Notes from the Reversible Queue

May 17, 2026

Why I keep writing the same state machine into every enterprise product, and why Undo is the feature I argue hardest to keep.
Hello, Toybox

May 16, 2026

Why I'm building a Toybox in public — and what I hope it becomes.