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September 2026

How to Get Ghosted by Your Client
We give away the thinking for free, leave proposals open forever, and act surprised when the client disappears.
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The Invisible Junior Designer
Every company wants senior designers. Nobody wants to make the new ones.
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1000 Subscribers Later
A thousand subscribers is not a milestone. It's a thousand individual decisions to keep showing up.
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The SaaS Dashboard Is Dead
Designers spent fifteen years making data look organized. But is organized the same as useful?
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Design Studios Are Now Product Studios
A studio that works inside fifty companies a year knows things a first-time founder never will. Some of them are starting to act on it.
 • Dipaq
How Not to Design With AI Agents
AI agents will give you the most reasonable version of whatever you ask for. Reasonable is not the same as right. The gap between them is where design…
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The 10x Designer
The most valuable work a designer does might be invisible.
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August 2026

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