Hello.Bonjour.Merhaba.Hello.
I'm Oz, a designer of things...
This is my signal space for a noisy mind
I write about the overlooked, the contradictory, and the quietly absurd.
A man I could not understand, a footprint calculator, a rainbow logo in June. Three versions of one marketing move. Name a debt, sell it back to the individual as a feeling, and keep the money. A settler's essay on the virtue we can afford.
In early 2025 more people died in Canada than were born, and the country grew anyway. The shortfall was filled from outside, as it now must be. A look at how Canada engineered its dependence on immigration, and why Quebec, Germany, France, Türkiye and Japan meet the same arithmetic and deny it in different ways.
The alarm goes off at a number the body never agreed to, and we call the result a personal failing. Social jetlag, the daily gap between biological time and the schedule imposed on it, is near universal and quietly expensive. Some economies lose almost three percent of GDP to being tired.
I build minimal tools and run small experiments.
A lightweight macOS menu-bar app that shows the track playing in TIDAL. Free, open source, macOS 13+.
Turn flight details into a timezone-safe calendar event. Enter airport codes and times, download an .ics anchored to the departure zone.
Indie publishing collective from Canada. Short books across tech, art, design, work, culture, and whatever else holds the attention.
I make spoofs of pop culture, catch life being itself, mix palettes by feel, and cross mediums freely.
