15 Apr Fifteenth #17: On unlearning Why do we do research? This might seem like an insultingly simple question, yet perhaps we have never paused to 15 Apr 2026 15 min read
01 Apr First #17: Research for People Who Think They Would Rather Create Research for People Who Think They Would Rather Create is a slender manual written by Dirk Vis — a Dutch lecturer 01 Apr 2026 13 min read
15 Mar Fifteenth #16: On the Men (and sometimes Women) Who Corrupted Hadleyburg In 1899, Mark Twain published the short story The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg. Written towards the end of his two-year 15 Mar 2026 10 min read
01 Mar First #16: The AI Con The AI Con, as its name misleadingly suggests, is not solely about AI; rather, it is an assiduous exercise in 01 Mar 2026 11 min read
01 Jan Reintroducing First and Fifteenth First and Fifteenth is a newsletter by me, Michael Kibedi. I am a design researcher and critical technologist, and I 01 Jan 2026 2 min read