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The Feed & The Thread - November 5, 2026

We’re asking whether our obsession with speed is quietly eroding the empathy and trust that define good design, a tension Russell Pinkston argues is just pouring gasoline on a fire we already lit. While Nick Babich details how to master AI tools through structured context, we examine the human cost of this acceleration, from managers bypassing designers to systems that are unreadable by the very algorithms meant to use them. This episode is about deciding if we’re shipping shallow solutions for the sake of efficiency or building products that actually understand human behavior.

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