“How is your day going?” It is a small question. Almost automatic. We ask it without thinking and answer it without meaning. “Good.” “Not bad.” “Busy.” And then we move on. But it was never really about the answer. It is a signal. A quiet way of saying, I see you, you exist, we are both here. Across cultures, this shows up in different forms. In London, it becomes “You alright?”, something I could never quite pick. It sounds like concern, but rarely expects an answer. And then there is “You okay?”, which I would hear quite a lot. The first few times, it genuinely confused me. It often sounded like “U.K.”, and for a moment I would wonder what exactly I was being asked. READ MORE
Structures
“What’s the Weather?” Said the Human
While preparing a short lightning talk for an internal software unconference, I kept asking myself a simple question: what is genuinely worth saying in two minutes? In the end, I titled the slide “The Most Expensive Bug Is Not a Bug.” That felt like the simplest way to capture the idea. My 2 mins .. the Slide I presented This led me to think about a phenomenon that extends far beyond software. In many well-known incidents, serious consequences emerged from the ways design choices guided interpretation, trust, and action. Systems behaved as expected, yet the way information was presented shaped how people understood the situation. Over time, small assumptions embedded in interfaces and interactions quietly influenced decisions with very real outcomes. In most cases, it READ MORE