Streeter.
the moment the idea becomes real.
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man.
Penguin Modern Classics.
Invisible Man found me at Berkeley — not as an assignment but as a collision. The novel made something click about how systems are designed to make certain people unseeable, and what it takes to redesign them from the inside out. The instinct that formed in that reading never left. It migrated, intact, into every piece of software I've built since: the conviction that the right system makes something that was invisible to everyone else suddenly, undeniably there.
Balboa High School, San Francisco. Pencil, 2024.
Before software, there was a classroom. The same instinct — make the invisible legible — applied to algebra and to students who had been told they could not do it. Every product problem I've worked on since has been, at its root, a teaching problem: someone has something fully formed in their head that they cannot yet make legible to anyone else.
“ You should have just as much fun traversing the site as watching it. ” — Bite Size TV, launch day, 2007