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The art of tiny experiments

Your next big idea doesn’t have to be a masterpiece. Real artistic growth comes from tiny moments of uncertainty and experimentation

5 min readApr 5, 2022

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The art of tiny experiments

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How to stay in love with your creative practice

What do you do when your ideas don’t just dry up, but disappear altogether? Here are 5 tips for falling back in love with your work

9 min readMar 10, 2022

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How to stay in love with your creative practice

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The Startup

Do the Dead Deserve Privacy?

What can our treatment of centuries dead corpses tell us about ourselves, our data and our own forthcoming digital demise?

10 min readOct 28, 2020

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Do the Dead Deserve Privacy?

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Lauren Ellis

I hope I haunt you too

There’s a quote I read and loved but can’t recall where it came from. It reads: “Intellectually I understand it. But I can’t seem to make…

2 min readMar 22, 2021

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I hope I haunt you too

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Lauren Ellis

There’s so much to say that we just say nothing

I’ve been thinking a lot about the things we say and the things we don’t. What’s shared and what has to be concealed.

3 min readMar 15, 2021

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There’s so much to say that we just say nothing

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Lauren Ellis

I guess we’ll talk again when you catch up

What does Edgar Allan Poe, your ceaseless sense of anxiety and moral relativism have in common?

3 min readMar 8, 2021

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I guess we’ll talk again when you catch up

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The Startup

I Am Learning to Believe in Well-Timed Bad Luck

As a species we are entranced with stories about near-misses. But what else can we learn from well-timed bad luck?

4 min readMar 1, 2021

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I Am Learning to Believe in Well-Timed Bad Luck

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Lauren Ellis

An ode to haunted houses

What can the travelling corpse of outlaw Elmer McCurdy teach us about our strange love for haunted house rides and cheesy horror movies?

7 min readDec 19, 2019

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An ode to haunted houses

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UX Collective

What constitutes a consciousness?

How do we define consciousness? It is a sum of synapses? A collection of characteristics? And can AI ever qualify as one?

8 min readNov 18, 2019

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What constitutes a consciousness?

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Lauren Ellis

The stranger in the night

What do you do when a stranger needs you?

4 min readSep 18, 2019

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The stranger in the night

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Lauren Ellis

Lauren Ellis

Writer, artist and occasional poet. Lover of philosophy, folklore, history + curiosities. UX writer by day. Writing a book about death by night.

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