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Field notes, essays, and running research on care ethics, motherhood, systems design, women’s health, and the invisible labour most products refuse to account for.
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A reproducible study of what glyph patterns can predict, and why a stronger control changed the claim. Method, code and full results are public.
Read the case studyManuscript image: Beinecke MS 408, folio 2r, Yale University Library.
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Essays and observations on design, technology, care, culture, and life across borders.
Glossary
Concepts from Portuguese and Indigenous frameworks that do not map cleanly into English product vocabulary. Listed A to Z as running entries: headword, sense, then how they show up in interface work.
Button color system
Primary action
Yellow
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.btn-primary-yellowStructural action
Dark green
Use for navigation, filters, selected states, secondary CTAs, and controls that organize the page.
.btn-secondary-greenQuechua (Andean)
Pronunciation: /EYE-nee/
DefinitionCosmic reciprocity. The principle that every exchange must balance. When one side extracts without returning, the system is in violation. Applied to data collection, care labour, user attention.
Brazilian Portuguese
Pronunciation: /gam-bee-AH-ha/
DefinitionImprovised repair with whatever is available. Duct tape engineering. The thing users build when your product doesn't account for their constraints.
Brazilian Portuguese
Pronunciation: /zhay-CHEEN-yo/
DefinitionThe creative workaround when systems fail you. Every mother does this. Every user in a broken system does this. When the interface doesn't account for your reality, you find a way anyway.
Brazilian Portuguese
Pronunciation: /ma-lan-DRAH-zhem/
DefinitionStreet intelligence. The ability to read a system, find its gaps, and navigate them with grace. Not dishonesty. Survival intelligence in environments not designed for you.
Portuguese
Pronunciation: /sow-DAH-djee/
DefinitionA deep longing for something that may not return. Not nostalgia. A structural absence you carry. Relevant to identity loss in caregiving, to return-to-work systems that assume you come back the same person.