About Justin.

You’ve got a day job. Why write?

“But you’re not a natural writer,” my school English teacher once told me after I said I wanted to study both English Literature and Language for my A-Levels.

I won’t comment on how true that is. But I like starting from there, because it lets me assume my output isn’t natural. It’s work.

And it’s work I keep coming back to, because writing has been the vehicle for so much of my discovery.

As William Zinsser notes, writing is really the “act of exploring a question and taking control of it.”

Writing is my research process, and this website is my lab.

So there’s not much rhyme or reason to what sits here.

In fact, the less I define this site, the more freedom it gives me to follow my curiosities. Sometimes I’ll write only a few lines, and that will be good enough to publish.

Other times I’ll demand a whole essay from myself.

That said, there will be themes. I often gravitate towards human nature and psychology: what makes us behave the way we do.

As a product designer, this is core to what I do.

But so is understanding the world around me.

In fact, I believe that understanding yourself and understanding the world are one mission, each making sense only through the other.

Writing is one way in. Making things is another: creating something from nothing and putting it out there for others to interact with.

Both creating and serving others teach you a little more about the world you live in. That’s why I track the things I’ve made here too.

Whatever you find here, I hope you take something from it.

Maybe that the world is to be learned about, that our actions are a means of discovery, and that joy is best when shared.

Love,