Maggie makes visual essays about programming, design, and anthropology.

Designer, anthropologist, and mediocre developer
Currently leading design at

The Garden

A digital garden is a collection of imperfect notes, essays, and ideas growing slowly over time. Learn more

Essays

Opinionated, longform narrative writing with an agenda

Notes

Loose, unopinionated notes on things I don’t entirely understand yet.

Spinning Worlds, Seasickness, and Dealing with Vestibular Neuritis

A Collection of Design Engineers

Gathering Structures

Speculative Calendar Events

Talk: The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI

Squish Meets Structure: Designing with Language Models

Language Model Sketchbook, or Why I Hate Chatbots

Neologisms

Teenage Skeuomorphic Desktop Designs

Reverse Outlining with Language Models

Empty Pointers and Constellations of AI

The Dark Forest and the Cozy Web

Patterns

Design patterns gathered from my own observations and research.

Library

Books I’ve read and books I like the idea of having read.

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Being You: A New Science of Consciousness

Being You: A New Science of Consciousness

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Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

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The Weirdest People in the World

The Weirdest People in the World

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The Empathy Diaries

The Empathy Diaries

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Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking

Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking

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Subprime Attention Crisis

Subprime Attention Crisis

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The New Media Reader

The New Media Reader

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The Dawn of Everything

The Dawn of Everything