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Stories, dispatches, and ideas. Guidance and exploration for a fractured future.

I’m a product strategist, writer, and systems thinker exploring how we live, resist, and adapt in complex environments - both real and imagined.

On this site, you’ll find:

  • Field Notes: Professional writing from the edges of product, design, and digital systems.

  • Signals: Essays and reflections, signals from everyday life that blur boundaries between the personal and the systemic.

  • Shiny Toy Robots: Speculative fiction, narrative experiments, and stories from fractured futures and imagined worlds.

I’ve spent years working at the intersection of design leadership, product strategy, and storytelling. I believe the stories we tell shape the systems we build. And sometimes, systems tell stories back.

You can find me thinking out loud here, pondering over a Negronic, or writing about resistance and possibility in the spaces between.

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Robin Cannon is leader in design systems, product management and strategic thinking. He's built and led design systems at J.P. Morgan and IBM.