https://dipt.in Writing on stablecoins, stablecoin UX, design engineering, and programmable money. https://dipt.in/reflections/stablecoin-ux Stablecoins make money programmable. That turns payments into a design problem - settlement speed, guardrails, and trust are now UX decisions. Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://dipt.in/reflections/pricing-for-agents Once agents can pay over 402 with stablecoins, the harder problem is figuring out what to charge them. Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://dipt.in/reflections/speed-of-money Why does sending money internationally still take a week, and what stablecoins change about that. Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://dipt.in/reflections/meta-content-short-attention-span On TBPN and ESLCS, and how the content around the content sometimes works better than the main event. Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://dipt.in/reflections/shifting-up-ai-workflow-gears Skilled programmers use AI agents differently than non-technical folks. It comes down to what gear you are running in. Thu, 20 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://dipt.in/reflections/apis-vs-forward-deployed-engineers APIs as a product never made full sense to me. The upside is in understanding how customers actually use them. Fri, 02 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://dipt.in/reflections/product-fit-vs-pricing-fit Built a product people said they would use but would not pay for. Product fit without pricing fit. Wed, 12 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://dipt.in/reflections/programming-changed-this-year Cursor and Claude changed how I write code this year. Great at the small stuff, still weak on systems thinking. Sun, 13 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://dipt.in/reflections/wrap-or-be-wrapped NFT royalties were optional on the standard, and wrapping tokens let traders bypass every rule built into them. Wed, 10 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://dipt.in/reflections/10x-community-member The 10x engineer idea shows up in web3 communities too, and the rewards rarely match who actually did the work. Tue, 08 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://dipt.in/reflections/ideas-vs-credentials In web3 you often only know someone by their ideas, not their background. That has upsides and downsides. Sat, 10 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://dipt.in/reflections/fifa-elite-division What reaching elite division in FIFA taught me about the habits at the top of a very popular game. Sat, 03 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://dipt.in/reflections/cheaters-buy-skins-too On why game studios struggle to ban cheaters when cheaters are also some of their biggest spenders. Wed, 26 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://dipt.in/reflections/freedom On leaving my job, giving up the H1B, and choosing freedom over the path of least resistance. Fri, 15 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMT https://dipt.in/reflections/academia On whether the most interesting work still happens in academia, or if that shifted to people building in industry. Wed, 14 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMT https://dipt.in/reflections/layoffs Watching layoffs happen at Expedia and how large orgs cut by team rather than by talent. Mon, 02 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT https://dipt.in/reflections/testing Testing traveller UX across cultures when pricing and product details are coded differently in each market. Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMT https://dipt.in/reflections/teamwork Building software is more like a team sport than a rockstar solo act. Wed, 12 Sep 2018 00:00:00 GMT https://dipt.in/reflections/philosophy An attempt to articulate what design means to me and how I approach it as a practice. Thu, 14 Dec 2017 00:00:00 GMT https://dipt.in/reflections/choose I believe to design is to choose, and what you design reflects every choice along the way. Sat, 09 Dec 2017 00:00:00 GMT https://dipt.in/reflections/ideas Ideas in design projects come in bunches, dry up for a while and then reappear. Wed, 26 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMT https://dipt.in/reflections/meetings No one says that meetings were the best part of a project. They are not, the act of doing and creating is. Meetings should be short and high-intensity Sun, 22 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT https://dipt.in/reflections/flavors Design is like an ice cream shop - everyone has their own flavor, and that diversity in perspective is what makes great design teams Fri, 16 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMT https://dipt.in/reflections/process A paper from design school on why software engineering should take more from HCI when thinking about users. Wed, 14 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMT https://dipt.in/reflections/wall The complexities of any project only surface when there is a contextual study of their users Thu, 20 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT https://dipt.in/reflections/amazing Why do some computer programmers develop amazing software or new concepts, while some are stuck with basic programming work? Sat, 21 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMT https://dipt.in/reflections/programming On what programming is really about, through a Mark Zuckerberg swimming pool interview question. Sun, 15 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMT