I joined a Forbes Technology Council panel on the design conventions worth reconsidering. The common thread: the choices that feel most generous are often the ones that strip away a user’s control. Here’s the blind spot I raised, and why it lives in your pricing. Here's the original article: https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbestechcouncil/2026/06/22/user-agency-in-digital-design-key-factors-to-consider/ A group of us on the Forbes Technology Council were recently asked a de

As software starts to act on our behalf, the most important thing a designer can protect is the user's sense of being in control. Agency isn't a feature you ship, it's the difference between a tool and a trap. There's a quiet shift happening in how we build software. For two decades, the job of design was to help people do things - click, type, drag, navigate. Now we're building systems that do things for people. Autocomplete became autodraft. Recommendation became decision.

Before Spotify, I was working on moonshot projects. Big, ambitious, slightly crazy bets on what technology could do. I loved that energy, but I wanted to learn how to do it at the place I believed did it better than anyone in my world. So I moved to Stockholm. Not for the city, not for the weather (anyone who has done a Swedish winter knows what I mean), but primarily to work at Spotify. I spent three and a half years there as a product manager building tools for music creato

On emergence, foundation models, spirituality, aatma and the oldest question a created thing can ask Podcast format: https://static.wixstatic.com/mp3/5971c2_69baa605f9c849d298b320c61045b084.m4a Hold a single pixel in your mind. Not a screen - one pixel. A point of light with exactly three numbers attached to it: a value for red, a value for green, a value for blue. That is its entire being. It cannot show you a sunset. It cannot show you a face. Alone, it cannot even show you

Picture a plate of biryani at someone’s door. Four parties touched it: a supplier sold the rice and spices, a cook made the food, a cloud-kitchen operator owned the brand and the building, and an app put it in front of a hungry stranger and took a cut. Everyone insists they’re essential. Only some get rich. The question isn’t who works hardest. It’s who captures the value, and why. Answer it for food and you have the lens for AI, where the same four roles exist: infrastructur

What if creating music felt like having a conversation with AI as your co-creator? The music industry is on the brink of a revolution....

Have you ever felt like you’ve heard this song before? The AI-powered music revolution is causing some serious déjà vu in the industry,...