micahboswell.vercel.app · writing
Everything Micah Boswell has published under his own name, in one place: essays on his portfolio site, articles on LinkedIn since 2016, answers on Quora since 2011, and twenty-nine poems.
The designer decides what happens at the moment a person is asked to accept what the machine just did. Where the source shows. What a wrong answer costs. Whether there is an undo. The second question, after the first wrong answer, is the whole job.
No. Three days of edge logs across four sites: 977 AI agents, 853 search crawlers, and every one of them arrived through robots.txt and sitemap.xml. What AEO actually changes, what llms.txt is worth, and what happened when three sites became MCP servers.
He finished his last class at Hardin-Simmons in 1992 and walked the stage in December 2025. Thirty-three years, most of them his own pride.
Twenty-nine poems, one page each, at conscious-shell.com/poems, and Dreams on Medium: Lima and Dallas, a son, a father, a faith that keeps getting rebuilt, music from a warehouse in the nineties.
Published on LinkedIn between 2016 and 2026. The method pieces came out of a weekly series he wrote for working designers.
Also on LinkedIn, listed on his articles page:
Since January 2011: more than 120 answers and 400,000 content views on his Quora profile. The topics he answers most are user experience design, user interfaces, music, New Wave, and Dallas. He runs two Quora Spaces: eCommerce UX and Media Anthropology.