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The Flower Power Hour is a weekly live show exploring design, AI, and software development. On Substack, longer-form thinking on AI-first design, systems, and the craft of building things that matter.
Podcast
Latest Episode
EPISODE 15: Lights out, cut the cord - VECTOR.md demo, call for recruits
February 20, 2026
Introducing Zero Vector, the future of building
Build Your First App with AI Agents LIVE HACKATHON
I need a key and the lock is inside out — Agentic AI First Design and Development
The Claude Code Messiah
The "You Can Do It" Claude Code Download
UX Magazine: Invisible Machines Podcast
Ho Ho Holy Crap Stop Framing Your Projects This Way!
Watch me bomb a live design case study interview.
The Empathy Exit, Interview with Travis Boatright
2200 hours: Or, how I learned to stop procrastinating and love the book
Do AIs Dream of Human Hallucinations? What AI-Readiness Means
Stand out! But... fit in! What is your unfair advantage?
Crafting Your Personal Narrative
Q&A + Save The Cat Beat Writes a Case Study
The Basics of Storytelling; or, How to Make Them Long for the Sea
NN/g Podcast: The Future of Service Design in the Age of AI
HANGCAST 2: How does a design org get AI ready?
AI Readiness at NASA 2024 - Erika Flowers
Ran Talks Design: Design Leadership: Driving Innovation in Reluctant Orgs
HANGCAST 1: Does a design mature environment even exist? Can we create one?
Writing
Latest Article
One Must Imagine Sisyphus Hopeful
July 20, 2026Camus imagined Sisyphus happy; I think he is wrong. The crueler reading is that he never stopped hoping the next push would work.
Walk unseen past the graves and the gates, born without a face
They don't gotta burn the books they just remove em
You are at the edge of the universe.
Missive from the edge of the universe
The Shipbuilder’s Paradox
Childhood's End
Second Rodeos
Taste Is Not a Moat
Tiny Voices
Threnody for the Victims of the Metaverse
The Napoleon Express
I Am Now Conscious For The First Time
Trade Your Double Diamonds for Steel
The Last Typesetter
Mutually Assured Construction
Agentic Development is just MMOs for Coding, and I am LFG.
Retirement Announcement
Zero Stage to Orbit
Everybody Wants to Meet Air Bud, But Nobody Wants to Be Air Bud
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