Ministry of the User

The Cognitive Assembly Line. Post #12: The Universal Geek (Intolerance for Human Friction)

The technological mindset views human “friction” — hesitation, emotion, misunderstanding, small talk — as system latency to be eliminated…

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2026

The Cognitive Assembly Line. Post #11: The “Organic” Code Movement

The Cognitive Assembly Line. Post #10: The Centaur Strategy (Don’t Be a Cog)

The Cognitive Assembly Line. Post #9: In Defense of Luddites (The Fight for Quality)

The Cognitive Assembly Line. Post #8: The Model T of the Mind (Mass Production of Thought)

The Cognitive Assembly Line. Post #7: The New Digital Landlords (Rentier Capitalism)

The Cognitive Assembly Line. Post #6. Killing the Junior Developer

The Cognitive Assembly Line. Post #5. The Bell That Never Rings

The Cognitive Assembly Line. Post #4. The “Human-in-the-Loop” Trap

2025

The Cognitive Assembly Line. Post #3. Burnout is the New Black Lung

The Cognitive Assembly Line. Post #2. The Invisible Boss

#1. The Mind’s Assembly Line: "Thinking" as a commodity

2024

76. The method #1

75. The Paradox of Work

74. When Trust Is a Punishment

72. Every project is both a success and a failure

73. Avoid bagging races

71. About Speed, Agility and Urgency

70. Die hard

69. Impact vs. Probability

68. There Is no such thing as human error

67. The Sniper and the Cow

66. The COO as the Principal UXer

65. Iterations, Not Hours

63. The DNA of your company does not exist

62. The Egregore of The Beatles

61. Reactivity, proactivity, and creativity

60. Broken windows

59. The monstrous elephant that thinks fast

58. Traveling to the future through the last mile

57. The cost of rework

56. Process beats product

55. The train and the cargo

54. Your product is what they do with it

53. Cortazar and the dependency

52. The Theme

51. Nipping at the Heels

50. Silicon Mirages

49. Service vs. Documentation vs. Support

48. Training your user is losing money

47. Werewolves do not exist

46. The key is the question

45. Every Product is Waste

2024: The UXers concerns unveiled

43. The ubiquity of waste

44. Nobody wants your product

42. No, That’s Not a Goal

41. “From Every Maze, One Exits Upwards”

40. Intangible Scaffolding

39. Your Opinion Doesn’t Matter

0. How to destroy your organization little by little

37. Make it obvious

38. Order is Progress

35. The 3M of Toyota

36. Priority is like a mother

34. If it fails, it stops

33. Neverending Story

32. Diderot doesn’t want to go into production

31. North of the Maginot Line

30. Iterating is Adapting

29. The Triple Constraint, That Dangerous Dogma

28. Professional Clairvoyance

27. Your Only Function

26. The Goal of a UX Department is to Disappear

25. Thinking About the User is Not Enough

24. Intuition is that you already know

23. Is UX Purely Business?

22. +Customization +Complexity

20. Accessibility isn’t what they think

19. Nothing is simple

18. I don’t want you to be my friend.

17. Dark Patterns Work (Unfortunately)

16. The mannequin, the compass, and the quadrant

15. “Show, don’t tell”

14. You need no empathy

4. UX without intention

5. UX always existed

6. UX is autonomy

11. A matter of focus

7. Social rats

8. Hooked

64. Technical problems and political problems

2023

3. The problem with UX/UI

10. “My uncle used it and he liked it”

9. Age does not matter

12. A matter of bandwidth

13. The stupid user

2. UX is everything

1. UX and teenage sex

2018

[OT] Argentina’s currency vs. US Dollar. A historical drama.

CODING IN DIFFERENT TIME ZONES We want to share with you some curious heat-maps.

Office Hours & remote mentoring

2017

A PROJECT MANAGER ONE AND ONLY TASK

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

TECHNICAL AND POLITICAL PROBLEMS

THE OPPOSITE OF LEAN IS BEING LATE

UX IS LIKE TEENAGE SEX