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Notes from the lab

Short essays on product taste, on-device defaults, and building software that belongs in the world.

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01

Shipping small apps on purpose

Why Plain Works Labs prefers focused products over one giant platform.
02

On-device by default

Privacy isn't a marketing line when the model never leaves the phone.
03

Designing habit loops that don't nag

A few rules we learned while building Conscio and Pepper.
04

Places as software

Passage, Layer, and Reverie treat the city as an interface.