Hey, I'm Zinzy, a diarist and designer from Amsterdam working in healthcare technology. This website is a home for soft stances, lived experiences, and critical notes on the things I hold dear. I've been yelling at Internet clouds since 1997.

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Things I don’t want to do

  • Touch supermarket baskets
  • Share a museum space
  • Sign in on Google, again
  • Turn off Figma design seats for each coworker I add

Things to avoid

  • Over attendance of spaces where I’m “the other”

Words to avoid

Grouped by year, I collect these when I have reached my limit with them.

2024

  • “Hold space”
  • Most other uses of “space” in a figurative sense

2023

  • “Woke”