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The Drafts is a space for thoughtful reflection, creative exploration, and real-world insights. Each episode is a behind-the-scenes look at ideas in progress—covering design, UX, entrepreneurship, and the everyday moments that shape the way we think and work.
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What a Cybertruck, the Dyson Airwrap, and the iPhone have in common (opens the original)
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Tesla, Dyson, Apple, and the gamble every tastemaker makes. Why the Tesla Cybertruck keeps losing sales while Tesla's own touchscreen dashboard became the industry standard. Why Dyson's bladeless fan never changed how anyone thinks about a fan, while the Dyson Airwrap built an entirely new category of hair tool. Why Apple could kill the iPhone keyboard in 2007 and get away with it, while Samsung's foldable phones never earned the same trust. A look at UX design, Jakob's Law, and the ten usabilit
Manufactured Serendipity: Why Your Algorithm Stopped Surprising You (opens the original)
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Why your For You Page stopped surprising you, and what recommendation algorithms are actually optimising for. Serendipity is not something recommendation systems stumble into. It is a measurable objective that researchers have been engineering, tuning, and writing algorithms for over close to twenty years, and most platforms have the dial turned down on purpose. This episode is about what that costs you, and about the second thing these systems manufacture, which is the feeling that you built yo
The Debt of Ambition (opens the original)
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What happens when you work hard, produce genuinely good things, and feel almost none of it? This episode is about the gap between achievement and the experience of achievement - why obligation-mode work produces real results that somehow never feel like yours, how that pattern forms, and what it costs over time. Diya talks through machine mode, the imposter syndrome you build yourself, and what a career break and a Toronto cafe taught her about the difference between a want and a should. Researc
The Unstable Plateau of the AI Boom (opens the original)
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The AI boom, Carlota Perez, and what happens when the wrapper comes off. ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Anthropic's Claude are converging in capability while thousands of products are built on top of them and own none of the infrastructure underneath. Using economist Carlota Perez's framework for technological revolutions and the 1840s British railway mania as a guide, this episode looks at the fault lines running through OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic, the "tokenmaxxing" cost crisis hitting compani
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