# David Nuñez — a public explorer of emerging futures
> I build little pieces of the future to probe what they mean: experiments, speculative artifacts, and field notes from the seam where   technology meets being human.
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## Pages
- [About](https://davidnunez.com/about.md) - I'm David Nuñez. For two decades I built things inside research labs, museums, and corporate tech teams. Now I do this full-time: explore emerging futures in public. I tinker and build in the open, then write up what happens, mess included. I'd rather poke at the future than predict it: build small…
- [Signal Path](https://davidnunez.com/signal-path.md)
- [Work With Me](https://davidnunez.com/work-with-me.md) - The work I do in public, I also do inside organizations — pointed at your world instead of mine. I help leaders and teams reason about what's coming by building it: speculative artifacts and working prototypes that make an abstract future concrete enough to argue with and plan around. It's usually…

## Posts
- [Work Harder, Not Smarter](https://davidnunez.com/work-harder-not-smarter.md) - I gave the assistant that runs my calendar the power to refuse me until I name a reason. Turns out the obstacle is the feature: learning science, behavioral economics, and HCI all drew the same line between friction that works for you and friction that works on you.
- [It's Not the Fake, It's the Lie](https://davidnunez.com/its-not-the-fake-its-the-lie.md) - A band with no humans in it, an actress who doesn't exist, a five-star write-up sitting on a hundred food-poisoning complaints. The machine isn't the scandal. The unlabeled swap is.
- [The Log Is Fake](https://davidnunez.com/the-log-is-fake.md) - I lost twenty minutes to a website that lets you chop firewood, and it handed me something my work keeps withholding: a finished pile.
- [Nobody Can Draw a Bicycle](https://davidnunez.com/nobody-can-draw-a-bicycle.md) - A spider, a fake FBI town, and a bicycle built for AI.
- [I Built a Robot to Read My Mind and Believed It Anyway.](https://davidnunez.com/i-built-a-robot-to-read-my-mind-and-believed-it-anyway.md) - I trusted a tool I made to tell me what mattered, until it disagreed with itself over a single misplaced space. A field guide to the confident outputs worth checking twice.
- [I was looking for a Nigel I could download](https://davidnunez.com/i-was-looking-for-a-nigel-i-could-download.md) - I wanted Nigel from Devil Wears Prada to walk into my bedroom. What showed up was a pile of apps and a piece of cardboard.
- [A Meteor Fell and I Couldn't Find the Crowd](https://davidnunez.com/a-meteor-fell-and-i-couldn-t-find-the-crowd.md) - A meteor boom over Boston, a real-time town square that had quietly fragmented into a hundred private instruments, and why the fastest civic response in 2026 is to build the answer instead of post it. Plus Watch Duty, a 48-hour moving model, and someone in a blueberry-muffin costume.
- [The Card Apple Would Rather You Not Use](https://davidnunez.com/the-card-apple-would-rather-you-not-use.md) - Why digital-first wallets still mail you a piece of metal.
- [The Pocket Test](https://davidnunez.com/the-pocket-test.md) - A field guide for naming what your phone is actually doing on a walk. Five answers, one honest question.
- [Some apps want you to go outside.](https://davidnunez.com/some-apps-want-you-to-go-outside.md) - On the small genre of software that uses the screen as a door, not a wall.
- [My calendar lied to me, and I have only myself to blame](https://davidnunez.com/my-calendar-lied-to-me-and-i-have-only-myself-to-blame.md) - A small operational fire, followed by the four-jobs question I now ask every tool in my stack. Plus: pilot logbooks, an inaccurate-planning study from UCL, and Andy Matuschak on bending software around real life.
- [Austin, TX: Progress & Nostalgia](https://davidnunez.com/austin-tx-progress-and-nostalgia.md) - I'm in Austin over the 4th of July weekend to visit family. Every time I come back to Texas I have incredibly mixed feelings.
- [100 Days and a Restart](https://davidnunez.com/100-days-and-a-restart.md) - Today we launched a new MIT Museum website, and started our 100 day countdown to the opening of the Museum in its new building at Kendall.
- [That New Computer Smell](https://davidnunez.com/that-new-computer-smell.md) - Do you remember the way your first computer smelled?
- [Anything but NFTs](https://davidnunez.com/anything-but-nfts.md) - So I was tempted to make this week’s newsletter about NFTs.
- [The Grief Multiplier and Gratitude](https://davidnunez.com/the-grief-multiplier-and-gratitude.md) - Personal reflections on loss, grief, and finding gratitude during the COVID-19 pandemic after losing a brother.
- [Happy New Year? If you say so.](https://davidnunez.com/happy-new-year-if-you-say-so.md) - I regret my jokes at the end of last year about how “it couldn’t get any worse than 2020.” At the very least, to the extent that this country is relevant to the rest of the world anymore, we have a lot of explaining to do in 2021 and beyond.
- [Patience](https://davidnunez.com/patience.md) - There's something about December that sends me into a frenzy of trying to wrap up projects...
- [The Show Must Go On(line)](https://davidnunez.com/the-show-must-go-online.md) - Somewhere in middle of Act II of Hamilton, I think between “The Adams Administration” and “We Know,” I fell fast asleep. This was the original cast on Broadway, mind you, and I was sitting in some of the best seats in the house.
- [Choose Your Own Adventure](https://davidnunez.com/choose-your-own-adventure.md) - Exploring the branching narratives of CYOA books through data visualization and what they teach us about choice.
- [Bricolage 002](https://davidnunez.com/bricolage-002.md) - This reminds me of why you should never poke a hardboiled egg after you put it in the microwave.
- [Election Day 2020](https://davidnunez.com/election-day-2020.md) - Almost all jurisdictions rely on electronic voting machines at their polling stations. It is worth understanding why we use them, how they work, and to what degree we can trust them.
- [Error 1202](https://davidnunez.com/error-1202.md) - Aboard the Lunar Module Eagle (LM-5), Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were 30,000 feet above the moon surface and rapidly descending.
- [(Not So) Quiet, Please](https://davidnunez.com/not-so-quiet-please.md) - In a fan-less season, the home teams’ noise advantage diminishes, and players’ performance is altered. Sporting venues have resorted to many tactics to restore some crowd normalcy to the game, including pumping in fake crowd noise.
- [Bricolage 001](https://davidnunez.com/bricolage-001.md) - Consider these interstitial episodes a bit of a release valve for us, or perhaps a palette cleanser to let us catch our breaths between the longer essays.
- [Eye to Eye](https://davidnunez.com/eye-to-eye.md) - Dressed in a long-sleeved, untucked white shirt, he climbs onto a platform in front of the audience.
- [Press 1 to Continue](https://davidnunez.com/press-1-to-continue.md) - I had a meeting with a colleague a few days ago, and she requested that instead of a video chat over Zoom, we should pick up the phone
- [Time is Weird in 2020](https://davidnunez.com/time-is-weird-in-2020.md) - Time is weird in 2020, wouldn't you agree?
- [Freediving into a Spreadsheet](https://davidnunez.com/freediving-into-a-spreadsheet.md) - How spreadsheets became cultural spaces for art, activism, and social action beyond business calculations.
- [Happy Upgrade Day](https://davidnunez.com/happy-upgrade-day.md) - You find it difficult to describe to your unlinked friends what it’s like to have an implant. It’s not like the movies, where you jack into a matrix and gain superpowers. You don’t suddenly have brain links to everyone else’s Wikipedia rabbit holes. It’s more subtle than that.
- [Study With Us](https://davidnunez.com/newsletter-study-with-us.md) - It was lovely sitting among strangers with their laptops open. Even as we were all lost in our socially distant headspaces, our minds and bodies were still chattering away with each other. Our study effort was contagious, entraining focus.
- [Touching a Heartbeat](https://davidnunez.com/touching-a-heartbeat.md) - I took the Apple Watch for a long walk last weekend. It did something unexpected and unattractive.
- [Hello, World](https://davidnunez.com/hello-world.md) - I do think we can have a symbiotic relationship with these creatures. They feed off of us, and in return, they perform magic on our behalf.

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