The Atlas · Threads

Threads

Projects end; the questions under them keep going. Each thread is a question that has run through client work, school and my own projects, sometimes for a decade.

Access

Who can reach care, services and opportunity, and what stands in the way.

6 items · 2021 to 2026 · Client work, Academic

2014201620182020202220242026

Public systems

How governments and public programs work for the people they serve.

3 items · 2020 to 2026 · Client work

2014201620182020202220242026

Legible data

Making complex information readable enough to act on.

12 items · 2020 to 2026 · Client work, Academic, Self-initiated

2014201620182020202220242026

Trust in AI

AI that people can understand, steer and rely on.

11 items · 2025 to 2026 · Client work, Academic, Self-initiated

2014201620182020202220242026

Play

Games as a way to learn, empathize and think.

18 items · 2025 to 2026 · Client work, Academic, Self-initiated

2014201620182020202220242026

Creativity

Improvisation against rigidity: how new things get made.

11 items · 2023 to 2026 · Academic, Self-initiated

2014201620182020202220242026

Energy and planet

Climate, energy and the resources a civilization runs on.

4 items · 2024 to 2025 · Client work, Self-initiated

2014201620182020202220242026

Feedback loops

Systems that learn from their own outputs, and the people inside them.

5 items · 2014 to 2026 · Client work, Academic, Self-initiated

2014201620182020202220242026