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2025

Augury
Ode to Heather Christle
Perfect knowledge ruins fun and creativity
Holographic cards
Poetry competition runner up
Evolving AI art
Paintings June 25
Shakespeare and Dataism
The Bar for AI Keeps Shifting
Paintings May 25
Fakemon process with AI
Carillon
Ownership in product
What's in a value?
The Age of Ideas
The 4 Ps of Good Business
Tailwind sucks
Imperfect AI is perfect
Inferential vs explicit logic
AI is not a hammer
Photography film
Perplexity vs. Google for Search
Deleting social media
10 highlights of 2024

2024

Apple's organisational disadvantage in the age of AI
Does there have to be a lesson here?
My first ever design document
Totori region - Fakemon
UK Technical Communication Awards 2024
Strategy in motion
10% more learning
API The Docs Podcast - Documentation by humans, for humans
Battery life matters
It just works... finally
The allure of stationery
Ownership in product
The New Generalist
23 things to celebrate from 2023

2023

Opinionated autonomy
Some books I've read recently
The Other Wind - Ursula Le Guin
ChatGPT learns Langaf
Progress doesn't always feel like progress
Documenting what you can do with an API
Build MLPs, not MVPs - Minimum Lovable Products

2022

The art of fast decision-making
Toys, tools, products
Bird
Rough recordings of old songs from isolation.

2021

DND: Way of the Selfless
DND: Tribune
Examining expected problems
DND: Combat Medic
Zine draft
DND: Warden

2020

DND: Gambler
DND: Brood

2019

The right tool for the job
DND: Umbarans
Habit tracking
10 things a day
Moths
Cryptic crossword #2

2018

YYMMDD is the best date format
Creating mailto: links that actually work
Random images
Everything starts with user experience and business model

2017

John Clowes - At Last!
5 reasons to keep a notebook
Cryptic crossword #1

2016

Minimally Viable Goods & Services
Various images
Optimizing life: lessons from AI search approaches
The Use of Genetic AI in the Balancing of Competitive Multiplayer Games
Knights and Crosses
Sigil drawings
Paintings

2015

Hand Typed
How is that not a thing?
Pioneers
Durham's river deaths
RA doodles

2013

Tell Me About It
Goodnight

2012

Various images
How important was postage stamp propaganda in the establishment of Soviet Russia?
Godfreys.co - still driving around London 12 years later
Lyla

2011

Is commercial failure indicative of poor design?
Food for Thought
Get Lost in Type

2010

A Postcard From Elvis
The Heygate Estate
How I Feel
Butterfly Brands

2009

Mech Tree

2008

Random images
Winter

Augury

September 12, 2025 · One min read

Max Clayton Clowes

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Ode to Heather Christle

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