Sean Voisen | Writing about design, philosophy, and technology.

Sean Voisen is a writer and software engineer interested in making computers better for human thinking & creativity.

This site is my blog and "digital garden," a collection of essays, quick thoughts, and evergreen notes on topics of personal interest.

Featured essays

New here? These are some of my favorite and most popular essays.

Design for lingering
Oct 13, 2025
An exploration of design interventions for deeper living, inspired by the philosophy of Byung-Chul Han.
The imp of optimization
Aug 1, 2025
A meditation on what we lose when we excessively measure our lives.
Design engineering, a working definition
Apr 4, 2024
A few thoughts on how we define the role of design engineer in the tech industry.

Recent posts

Feb 12, 2026 Writing Programming in the swamp
Feb 7, 2026 Thinking Eighty eight keys and a blinking cursor
Jan 12, 2026 Writing Cosmotechnics and AI: Reading Hamid Ismailov's We Computers
Dec 31, 2025 Writing 2025 year in review
Dec 21, 2025 Thinking A bestiary of AI metaphors
Dec 5, 2025 Writing Book recommendations from my reading in 2025
Nov 22, 2025 Thinking On time and tokens
Nov 14, 2025 Writing Not a hobby: Reflections on life habit experiment №2
Oct 13, 2025 Writing Design for lingering
Oct 2, 2025 Writing Cézanne’s doubts

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