Make Your AI Voice Irreducibly Yours
Twenty years of using Pixar films to teach how values govern decisions—and a free Voice Skill Builder that produces a six-file markdown kit so your AI reasons from beliefs, not brittle rules.
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My brother Patrick Rosal is the Guggenheim's 2026 Poet-in-Residence
I could not be more proud. Five poetry collections, major awards, NEA and Fulbright honors—and now The Water Listeners at one of the world's most respected museums.
View on LinkedIn →In the 90s I fell in love with design because of David Carson
Ray Gun–era typography felt impossible in browser-rendered work — until now. Rebuilding my portfolio with Claude, Figma MCP, and Cursor 3: the loop is tight enough that character-level details ship instead of dying in handoff.
View on LinkedIn →There’s a little macOS app I use almost every day
How a native Markdown Converter became the most useful thing I’ve ever built — reducing token overhead by 70% without burning a single API call.
View on LinkedIn →Token efficiency is about to become a hiring filter
If you’re building teams for the AI era, you need people who understand that capability and cost are not the same thing. Tokens are budget.
View on LinkedIn →We should probably have drinks and talk about how AI is amazing and chaotic
Instead of building processes top-down, build from primitives. Strategic guardrails, token budgets, error patterns, and tool-specific realities — rooted in values, not tool assumptions.
View on LinkedIn →I put Dispatch and Figma together to see what would happen
Anthropic released Dispatch. Figma announced AI agents can write to the canvas. Two announcements, a week apart. Here’s what works and what doesn’t.
View on LinkedIn →The digital Venn diagram used to have three overlapping circles
Strategy, Design, and Tech had clear lanes. AI turned the sliver shapes into a unified turbine. The overlap zone got wider — and that changes everything about how teams work.
View on LinkedIn →Well that was fast
LLMs now have direct access to write to the Figma canvas — auditing design systems, editing existing files, creating components, and more.
View on LinkedIn →What if AI stood for Accelerated Iteration?
The most human benefit of AI is quieter than speed and automation. Ideas mature faster. The concept you would have shelved, you build and find out.
View on LinkedIn →If you’re just using Figma MCP, you’re like a cheetah running with one paw
I connected Codex, Claude, Cursor, and Antigravity to the same Figma file, gave each one different seeded errors, and pushed beyond what MCP allows.
View on LinkedIn →Looking for an IVA specialist with Veeva CLM experience
Someone in my network needs an IVA specialist who designs inside Veeva CLM for pharma brands. Long-term contract gig.
View on LinkedIn →I love sneaking happy little moments into the things I build
Copy a time entry and a tooltip animates in with a random animal emoji. A checkmark would’ve worked fine. But a checkmark doesn’t make you smile.
View on LinkedIn →Arccos Golf doesn’t have an AI feature... yet
I started designing one anyway. I wanted to ask my shot-tracking data questions instead of reading charts and connecting dots manually.
View on LinkedIn →People are talking about rebuilding context at the start of AI sessions. Here’s mine.
Modular .md instruction files in three folders. A shell script copies the right ones and generates Cursor rules for each new project.
View on LinkedIn →The difference between those outcomes isn’t the tool. It’s the prompt.
Follow-up to the Figma AI tools test. The prompt you write is the design decision now. Context, intent, and restrictions — that’s the axe.
View on LinkedIn →I gave Cursor, Claude, and Codex the same Figma file and a vague prompt
One matched the design to the pixel. One reimagined it entirely. One finished in 28 seconds and garbled the token names. The takeaway wasn’t which tool won.
View on LinkedIn →Interesting and... curiously disappointing
The MacBook Neo has a WCAG accessibility issue baked into its UI. Apple’s indigo theme scores 2.36:1 contrast where AA requires 4.5:1.
View on LinkedIn →My AI thin client... oops, MacBook Neo arrives today!
A personal machine for Claude Code, Cowork, and passion projects. The Neo fills the gap between a Mac Studio for heavy compute and a dedicated work laptop.
View on LinkedIn →Watching Claude figure something out in Xcode
Like watching a champion of second-guessing one’s self. They do have a sense of self, right Anthropic?
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