Against performance fetishization

Against performance fetishization

Let’s start with a story. Consider a tech worker at a tech company, one of the many employees caught up in a modern “high-performance” culture. The company hires a new director to “transform” the department. You know, the kind of transformation that comes...
Design through transitions

Design through transitions

In 2019 a photo was uploaded on a Reddit community that depicted a graffiti on a wall that read in Chinese characters: “We can’t return to normal because the normal we had was precisely the problem”. That message was written presumably during the Hong Kong unrests but...