Journal topic
Digital independence
Competition, interoperability, privacy, and the practical value of having another choice.
8 articles
Search is also an act of reading
Finding a page is not enough. Search should help people judge sources, understand context, and decide where to read next.
Privacy needs a visible interface
A policy can describe boundaries, but a product must let people see and control them where decisions actually happen.
Software should make leaving boring
The strongest proof that a product earns loyalty is a calm exit: useful exports, clear consequences, and no manufactured obstacle course.
The useful internet is bigger than the popular internet
Ranking naturally gathers attention around established pages. Discovery needs deliberate room for smaller, stranger, and more specific sources.
Search should send you somewhere
The purpose of search is not to hold the user inside a results page. It is to create a trustworthy route from a question to the wider web.
One account, not one dossier
A shared sign-in can remove needless friction without turning every click, query, game, and idea into a single behavioural profile.
The quiet tax of digital monocultures
When one product becomes the default, the cost is larger than price. We lose bargaining power, resilience, and the ability to imagine a different tool.
The Invisible Tax of Convenience: Why the Easiest Life Is Not Always the Richest One
Convenience removes effort, but it can also erode agency, skill, discovery, and the texture that makes a life feel rich.