Builder Diary

Notes from inside the process of building products: decisions, trade-offs, experiments, doubts, and lessons learned along the way.

Builder Diary

Book Payoff: designing a smarter vocabulary triage system for Ember Reader

Not every saved word deserves the same future. I have been thinking about what a smarter handoff from reading to learning might look like — and what "Book Payoff" actually means.

Builder Diary

Not Every Unknown Word Is Worth Learning

Not every unknown word deserves time in review. The question isn't whether a word is unfamiliar. It's whether knowing it is likely to help you again.