What Am I Trying to Accomplish?
Reflecting on what SightForward can become: practical ways to remove barriers, reduce friction, and share what works for different people.
September 6, 2026 · Experience · About 3 min read
I always find it challenging when someone asks what I'm working on.
Sometimes it's an application. Sometimes it's a game. Other times, it's simply a new way of doing something that removes a little friction from everyday life.
I've realized that maybe those things aren't as disconnected as they seem.
I had an interesting conversation with my daughter recently about task managers and productivity apps. It reminded me that she and I approach these things in very similar ways, but it also reinforced something I've learned over and over again:
There is no single solution that works for everybody.
Some people love task-management systems with separate lists for every project and area of their life. They want tags, filters, priorities, colors, categories, and plenty of ways to organize everything.
And that's great—if it works for them.
I want almost the exact opposite.
Give me a running list. Let me assign dates when I need them. Make it easy to see what needs my attention, and then get out of my way.
The more complicated the system becomes, the less likely I am to use it.
Finding What Works for You
I think this applies to much more than productivity software.
Accessibility is certainly like this. So is the way we use our phones and computers. The tools that remove friction for one person can create more friction for somebody else.
That's why I'm increasingly interested in finding solutions rather than finding the solution.
Sometimes that might mean building an app because I can't find exactly what I need.
Sometimes it might mean discovering a feature that's already sitting on my iPhone or Mac.
Sometimes it might just mean changing the way I approach a problem.
And Then There's SightForward
SightForward is an interesting concept to me because it seems to change every time I think about it.
It started largely as a home for the software I'm creating. But I'm beginning to realize that I want it to represent something bigger than that.
I don't want SightForward to exist simply as a way to make money, run a business, or measure whether something I've created is successful.
I want it to be useful.
That might mean creating an application that solves a specific problem. It might mean sharing an accessibility technique that made something easier for me. It might mean talking about an experiment that failed so somebody else doesn't have to waste their time trying it.
And sometimes it might simply mean sharing a different way of looking at a problem.
I don't know exactly what SightForward will eventually become.
I'm actually becoming comfortable with that.
What I do know is what I'm trying to accomplish: find practical ways to remove barriers, reduce friction, and share what I learn so that someone else might find a solution that works for them.
If SightForward can do that, then it's leaving the kind of positive mark I want it to leave.