Archive - DSCS

Recipe 03: AI as juicer

Reviving my kitchen metaphor—this time for app-building AIs and existential asterisks.

Jul 9 •

May 2025

Things That are Working Outside of My Inbox

Eight months later, three solutions surfaced.

May 19 •

September 2024

Switch and pivot

A new era for DSCS — and the why behind it.

Sep 16, 2024 •

July 2024

Post-center, pre-reorganization

New projects for old problems, the white collar recession, and building hope with data.

Jul 11, 2024 •

March 2024

Recipe 02: Design operations beyond design

On toxic polarization, applying a tech industry role to a nonprofit, and the art of making stew.

Mar 19, 2024 •

January 2024

Rear View Mirror, 2023

From Techland™️ to Artland™️ to Social Impactland™️, here's a wrap of what DSCS did this year.

Jan 3, 2024 •

November 2023

The difference between a crowd and a community

... and how to get both for your next project.

Nov 21, 2023 •

June 2023

On the urgency of fallow

How to apply an oxymoronic land practice to design ops and art.

Jun 12, 2023 •

March 2023

How design ops fit into an artist-run ad agency—and the psychology of seeing physical horizons.

Mar 14, 2023 •

December 2022

Rear View Mirror: 2022

A year of spreading Design Operations and Community Strategy across agencies, start ups, and artist studios.

Dec 21, 2022 •

September 2022

On administration as art

Design operations, consulting, OKRs—why they're works of art, and why the best admins are artists in disguise.

Sep 15, 2022 •

August 2022

Against specialization

Why artists and cultural workers should embrace generalization in an era of constant crisis.

Aug 9, 2022 •

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