We publish when there is something worth saying, not when a calendar demands it. Three essays so far, each the product of months of work. Read in any order; each piece links to the practice or product it shaped.
Most wellbeing apps optimise for sessions. We argue this is a category error, and walk through the design principles behind models that earn long-term trust by demanding less of you, not more.
Linked practice: all three rituals · principle I — Restraint over reach
Read on →We followed 1,400 participants through fourteen months of personalised wind-down sequences. Light tapering moved measured sleep onset from 22 to 14 minutes on average. Caffeine timing dominated almost every other variable.
Linked practice: Sleep Grove · principle V — Honest about trade-offs
Read on →Personal reflections are the wrong data to ship to a cloud. We explain why on-device inference is now technically viable, what the trade-offs are, and how Reflect Grove is built end to end without ever seeing your entries.
Linked practice: Reflect Grove · principle III — On-device for the intimate
Read on →A piece arguing that "employee wellbeing platforms" are quietly the most consequential surveillance vector inside large organisations, and what a different design would actually look like. In draft.
We would rather publish less and be trusted,
than publish often and be ignored.
— Editorial note, the Journal · principle VI