Joel Dueck

Hi! I’m Joel Dueck, a fractional CTO, and a designer of small books and small websites (a publishing nerd).

• Blog (updated)
• Projects (meticulously documented)
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My spare-time programming skills mostly support a practice of making elegant and effective artifacts on the web and in print.

I live in Minnesota with my wife Jessica and two children.

Entry points

The writing here is an interlinked garden. Here are some places to get started.

Theories of mind

2023

Mind Palaces
A ‘mind palace’ is any cognitive system or lever built by a person or small group.

2021

Being in the Graph Mind
Being online is like being a neuron that can drive.

A Sense of Place

2025

Iceland
Photos and notes from a week of exploration

Color Reception
Environment as brush, mind as canvas.

2023

Northern Minnesota, October 2023
Short retrospective, with photos