Naked Instinct
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Brief moments. The narrative of experience.
nakedinstinct.xyz
nakedinstinct.xyz
When the same word describes everything from genuine location independence to two days at home, language has failed.
A classification system for remote work - bringing precision back to distributed arrangements.
www.nakedinstinct.xyz/remote-work-...
A classification system for remote work - bringing precision back to distributed arrangements.
www.nakedinstinct.xyz/remote-work-...
Remote: terms of distributed collaboration
Remote work evolved faster than our language for it. This classification system creates common terms for describing distributed arrangements - from companies and talent to platforms.
www.nakedinstinct.xyz
December 21, 2025 at 1:20 PM
When the same word describes everything from genuine location independence to two days at home, language has failed.
A classification system for remote work - bringing precision back to distributed arrangements.
www.nakedinstinct.xyz/remote-work-...
A classification system for remote work - bringing precision back to distributed arrangements.
www.nakedinstinct.xyz/remote-work-...
Designing pandemic infrastructure meant serving individual families while maintaining systems for 47 million people simultaneously. User needs and crisis infrastructure, responding at speed. Service choreography.
nakedinstinct.xyz/architecting-crisis-infrastructure/
nakedinstinct.xyz/architecting-crisis-infrastructure/
Architecting pandemic infrastructure at human scale
How rapid iteration, transparent privacy design and ecosystem thinking transformed the NHS COVID Pass from crisis response to trusted infrastructure serving 47 million people
nakedinstinct.xyz
November 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Designing pandemic infrastructure meant serving individual families while maintaining systems for 47 million people simultaneously. User needs and crisis infrastructure, responding at speed. Service choreography.
nakedinstinct.xyz/architecting-crisis-infrastructure/
nakedinstinct.xyz/architecting-crisis-infrastructure/
As artificial intelligence gains visual capability, we’re discovering it doesn’t replicate human seeing. It creates something fundamentally different - a ‘look space’ where processing happens at a speed our attention can’t match.
What is we really need to know?
nakedinstinct.xyz/ai-look-space
What is we really need to know?
nakedinstinct.xyz/ai-look-space
Your AI can see you now: Understanding the look space
AI vision creates something new: a domain where processing happens before meaning, where patterns are detected faster than human attention can shift. What we build in this ‘look space’ determines what...
nakedinstinct.xyz
October 17, 2025 at 9:58 PM
As artificial intelligence gains visual capability, we’re discovering it doesn’t replicate human seeing. It creates something fundamentally different - a ‘look space’ where processing happens at a speed our attention can’t match.
What is we really need to know?
nakedinstinct.xyz/ai-look-space
What is we really need to know?
nakedinstinct.xyz/ai-look-space
The hardest part of building the NHS COVID Pass wasn’t the technology. It was translating between epidemiologists who thought in R-numbers, engineers and families who just needed to visit grandparents.
Infrastructure work is translation work. New piece:
nakedinstinct.xyz/from-heathro...
Infrastructure work is translation work. New piece:
nakedinstinct.xyz/from-heathro...
From Heathrow to Gibraltar: architecting pandemic infrastructure at a human scale
Picture a 14-year-old at Heathrow who can’t board her flight because the system doesn’t recognise anyone under 16. How edge cases shaped the NHS COVID Pass - and what crisis infrastructure teaches us ...
nakedinstinct.xyz
August 25, 2025 at 5:37 PM
The hardest part of building the NHS COVID Pass wasn’t the technology. It was translating between epidemiologists who thought in R-numbers, engineers and families who just needed to visit grandparents.
Infrastructure work is translation work. New piece:
nakedinstinct.xyz/from-heathro...
Infrastructure work is translation work. New piece:
nakedinstinct.xyz/from-heathro...
out there in the wild
August 2, 2024 at 4:01 PM
out there in the wild