> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.cesarrg.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # [Weekly Retro] They are counting on you - URL: https://www.cesarrg.com/weekly-retro-they-are-counting-on-you/ - Published: 2026-06-05T13:00:19.000Z - Updated: 2026-06-05T13:00:19.000Z - Author: César Rodríguez - Tags: Weekly Retro, Design #282 - Jun.2026 ***Weekly Retro** **is a short e-mail with a wrap-up of ideas from the week, interesting links I found, and food for thought before you head off for the weekend.* Happy Friday! Here is a quick idea for the weekend: 1 in 6 people in the world has a significant disability. Life expectancy is rising. Billions are coming online for the first time. These are all **users**. And they're counting on you to think about them when you design. [**Universal design**](https://www.cesarrg.com/designing-for-everyone-universal-design/) is the discipline of constantly asking: ***who am I leaving out?*** You do this by practicing **empathy**. Not the type of empathy of putting "yourself in others' shoes". By putting "yourself" in, you bring **your own** biases and perceptions with you. You need clean lenses. The type of empathy where you **remove** "yourself" and try to really look through the user's eyes. You imagine **"their"** biases and perceptions. That's a very different thing. ### ⛑️ Interesting framework > Yet as agents become capable of doing work that once required a person or even a team, the cost of not deploying grows large enough that the risk-reward calculation tips heavily toward adoption, as long as products can be made safe. The engineering question becomes how to cap the blast radius. Patterns for containing agents: - The ephemeral container - The human-in-the-loop sandbox - The local VM Source: [How we contain Claude across products](https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/how-we-contain-claude?ref=cesarrg.com) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/10/f4/10f4a52f-1b7d-4284-b66d-0fccfd9dc5da/content/images/2026/06/image-2.png) ### 🗺️ Assorted links of cool articles I found during the week [No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not ConsciousTaken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/10/f4/10f4a52f-1b7d-4284-b66d-0fccfd9dc5da/content/images/icon/apple-touch-icon-152x152-aafde20dd981a38fcd549b29b2b3b785-662c9e80-9bfb-446d-930f-801be5af981a.png)The AtlanticTed Chiang![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/10/f4/10f4a52f-1b7d-4284-b66d-0fccfd9dc5da/content/images/thumbnail/original-28f62043-92e2-45bf-880c-5dcd6f0857d6.gif)](https://www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2026/06/no-artificial-intelligence-is-not-conscious/687378/?ref=cesarrg.com) [The Man Who Reads Books For a Living (One Every Two Days)When Clarke Speicher (spike-er) asked how I liked the screen adaptation of Train Dreams, Denis Johnson’s novella following the solitary logger Robert Granier in the early 20th-century American West…![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/10/f4/10f4a52f-1b7d-4284-b66d-0fccfd9dc5da/content/images/icon/favicon-95e71c4c-9de0-4990-a3fe-27d3ffe46164.ico)Literary HubJulien C. Levy![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/10/f4/10f4a52f-1b7d-4284-b66d-0fccfd9dc5da/content/images/thumbnail/AN-AMERICAN-scaled-2a508aa0-ff3e-472e-8a1c-6d3ba704552b.jpg)](https://lithub.com/the-man-who-reads-books-for-a-living-one-every-two-days/?ref=cesarrg.com) [The Speed of Prototyping in the Age of AIHow AI has changed the way I prototype, plan, and ship; and what I’m doing to keep my hands dirty.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/10/f4/10f4a52f-1b7d-4284-b66d-0fccfd9dc5da/content/images/icon/profile-180-2e27c52c-36cd-47d8-90af-27544072e7f2.png)Daryl Cecile![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/10/f4/10f4a52f-1b7d-4284-b66d-0fccfd9dc5da/content/images/thumbnail/og-f4d6bb1c-86d8-4fac-b6c9-f5cd0a425a5e)](https://darylcecile.net/notes/speed-of-prototyping-age-of-ai?ref=sidebar) [Choosing to Stay HumanIf you go to your favorite social media site, you will find it full of posts that start to look suspiciously similar to each other:![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/10/f4/10f4a52f-1b7d-4284-b66d-0fccfd9dc5da/content/images/icon/https-3A-2F-2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com-2Fpublic-2Fimages-2F233e9990-95ea-44ab-afc4-5abfe44f24d4-2Fapple-touch-icon-180x180-28c82c9a-b2fe-4e0d-81e1-336c38501c7d.png)One Useful ThingEthan Mollick![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/10/f4/10f4a52f-1b7d-4284-b66d-0fccfd9dc5da/content/images/thumbnail/https-3A-2F-2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com-2Fpublic-2Fimages-2Fb63d669d-64f1-4f8b-81ae-9476d20a720d_1182x635-46a9d984-b75b-41bc-815c-c009f311ead9.png)](https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/choosing-to-stay-human?ref=cesarrg.com) ### 🖋️ Quote of the week > “A lovely blend: Always reaching. Already enough.” — **James Clear** ![César Rodríguez](https://storage.ghost.io/c/10/f4/10f4a52f-1b7d-4284-b66d-0fccfd9dc5da/content/images/2024/09/image-2.png) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/10/f4/10f4a52f-1b7d-4284-b66d-0fccfd9dc5da/content/images/2024/02/CR_sign_2024-3.png) **César Rodríguez** [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/crodriguezguevara/?ref=cesarrg.com) / [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/cesarrg.blog/?ref=cesarrg.com) / [X](https://x.com/cesarrgv?ref=cesarrg.com) ****New ideas, every week.** Subscribe Email sent! Check your inbox to complete your signup. Join other innovation leaders, product managers, and creatives getting frameworks, ideas, and lessons for the builders and thinkers shaping what's next. No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.