Naz Hamid • Journal

I didn't upgrade my iPhone last year.

Making core memories with my mama, on the annual visit.

Getting into a Waymo driverless car for the very first time.

Reflections on the role of smart devices in our lives.

Music gives me the feels.

Rolling my own low-brow and lo-fi system for saving web bookmarks.

Revisiting a changed Seattle 17 years later.

Flipping perspectives courtesy of Trevor Noah.

Managing project management tools is not what we signed up for.

A rundown of my first ever trail running race.

Thoughts, observations, and new ways of approaching life a year later.

Identifying where and how you get what you give.

Looking back?

The story of how I started training for a 50K ultramarathon.

The disconnection forced by algorithms.

The lack of public bathrooms in the US is a statement.

What is Instagram Threads really?

Thoughts on jettisoning social media.

Marveling in the natural world that has existed for so long.

Capturing photographic moments camping. → This looks better on the web → Reply via email Thanks for reading and using RSS!

The heaviness has a name.

Feeling between, in a liminal space.

Freezing a friend in a landscape.

Making good on what we missed.

What do I hold true as I turn another year older?

Capturing a moment with friends in Death Valley.

Vehicular exploration in the desert.

Another year for my life partner.

A tasty sacred leaf.

Roads in wild places.

A morning moment remembered.

Humility in nature.

The point of no return for our climate.

Remembering my father and the day he passed.

Is the pandemic over?

Getting vaccine dose number two.

Vaccine shot no. 1, and the whiplash of realization.

I turned 43 in Death Valley.

A brown immigrant's experience of racism in America.

The albums that were on heavy rotation during turbulence.

The pyramids outside of Mexico City.

The gorgeous Mexico City library.

How does product design adapt in an ever-changing world?

And I don't plan to.

What those new to the field should know, and how we can help.

Rdio comes out of beta, and what a glorious service it is.

The story of how I met Jen Schuetz.

Considering how much design is too much.