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Alexandra Kay

FIG. S1 / SUBJECT PHOTOGRAPHED WHILE THINKING ABOUT WHETHER PIP SHOULD BE A CARDINAL

Mid-MSCS, mid-build, and mid-argument with myself about whether Pip should be a cardinal.

CONFIRMED HUMAN
/ THE SUBJECT

An engineer who obsesses over typography.

A designer who enjoys mathematics. A marketer who likes orbital mechanics. Someone with ADHD who keeps trying to make things simpler instead of louder.

Ten-plus years in software engineering, fifteen in the craft, currently mid-way through an accelerated MSCS at WGU focused on ML and AI. I don't want things to merely work — I want them to have a personality and a reason to exist. That's usually where the extra hour goes.

Take complexity, organise it, hand it back looking effortless. The weekly builds were the method — explore, document, focus, ship. They did their job. Now the work has a direction, and it's called Dot.

SEND ME A WEIRD IDEA ↗
T1

Systems, not formulas

I want to know why the thing works, then whether my TI-84 can do the boring half.

T2

Names matter

Hundreds of candidate names for one product. Not for a name — for the right one.

T3

Everything gets optimised

Firebase architecture, study strategy, posting workflow. Same question every time.

T4

Ideas get personalities

Other people ship a SaaS logo. I gave mine a backstory and argued about its species.

EXPLORE → DOCUMENT → FOCUS → SHIP
ExploreDocumentFocusShip