Tawanda Moyo

I now see more bugs and inconsistencies everywhere. I attribute this newfound perceptivity to Dan Luu, and two books I recently read.

A retail chatbot recommends taking legal action against the company. A look at how brittle AI deployments can be, and some solutions.

On the EcoCash app's UX, particularly its approach to balance visibility, and recommendations for improvement.

Some thoughts on building software through prompting alone.

What thinkers from Aristotle to the present expected of made minds.

A wasted afternoon debugging WordPress, and how an increasingly bloated web costs the people on the slowest phones and the slowest connections.

On biasing towards action.

On learning R as part of MITx 14/310x: Data Analysis for Social Scientists

"Don't Make Me Think", "A Hacker's Mind", and other books I read (and listened to) in August and July 2026

A short reflection on patience, waiting, and Zhuangzi on the sameness of things

"The Histories" by Herodotus, "Work", and other books I am reading in April 2025

Notes on implementing JavaScript features in Firefox.

"Chase, Chance, and Creativity: The Lucky Art of Novelty", and other books I chanced to read in February 2023

"Thinking in Systems", James Nestor's "Breath", and other books I read in January 2023

Why an ancient Spartan cup is the epitome of good design

What Zhuangzi's Cook Ting teaches us about mastery, and dealing with complicated problems

Saving 436 posts by the late Alex Magaisa in case the domain lapsed. (It did, eventually: the site is gone and the domain now belongs to someone else.)

Notes on Julia Galef's The Scout Mindset

Systems matter more than goals

On expanding my Kindle highlights tool to become a desktop app

Notes on The Algebra of Happiness by Scott Galloway

Notes from Jocko Willink's Discipline Equals Freedom