— Index 04 / Journal
Essays, field logs, and dispatches written between commits. Mostly on engineering and product, occasionally on the strange shape of a software career. New posts arrive when they are ready, not before.
15 · PostsEST. 2025Updated OCT 20, 2026
— The archive
Everything, in order.
2026
— 12 entries
- 14Nobody has lost money this fastEssay8 minOCT 06Essay8 minAIOne of these companies lost more in a year than it earned. The interesting question is not whether that is sustainable — it is what happens on the way to finding out.
- 13This is not a moon raceEssay8 minSEP 09Essay8 minAIEveryone reaches for the Apollo comparison. It mostly breaks — and the specific ways it breaks tell you how this race actually ends.
- 12AI, but for hardwareNotes6 minAUG 14Notes6 minAISoftware AI won because a $20 subscription fit almost any budget on Earth. The robot version starts at the price of a car — and that changes who adopts it, and when.
- 11The model they switched offDispatch8 minJUL 30Dispatch8 minAIIn June the US government did something it had never done: ordered a deployed AI model taken offline. What actually happened — and what July 12 doesn't mean.
- 10The twelve-day trillionaireEssay7 minJUL 20Essay7 minEconomicsFor twelve days in June, one man was worth a thousand billion dollars. The interesting question isn't how — it's what allowed even means.
- 09The bill came dueEssay8 minJUN 12Essay8 minAIA lot of CEOs woke up this spring to discover their AI coding bill is larger than the developer salary it was supposed to replace. The arithmetic was always there.
- 08The endangered seniorEssay7 minJUN 05Essay7 minAIIf AI is eating junior work, where do the seniors of 2032 come from? On a pipeline that quietly stopped filling.
- 07The art of specialization in an economy like NigeriaEssay8 minMAY 08Essay8 minCareerEvery career book says: specialize. The advice is right. It just wasn't written for this economy.
- 06Shipping fast without breaking the things that matterEssay7 minAPR 22Essay7 minEngineeringOn the difference between velocity and recklessness — a field note from five years of production.
- 05The barrier of entry has movedNotes6 minAPR 04Notes6 minAITech's front door used to ask can you write a for-loop. It now asks something much harder — and quieter.
- 04The quiet art of good defaultsNotes5 minMAR 14Notes5 minDesignWhy most great products are 90% defaults — and how to design them so users never notice.
- 03Why I keep rewriting the same buttonField log4 minFEB 08Field log4 minFrontendA field log on the buttons I have shipped, the buttons I have deleted, and what I have learned along the way.
2025
— 2 entries
- 02What AI actually changed about my workEssay7 minNOV 30Essay7 minAINot the productivity-influencer version. The actual, somewhat-deflating version, from someone who ships every day.
- 01Designing for the second timeNotes6 minSEP 19Notes6 minProductMost product design assumes a first-time user. The interesting design lives in what happens after.
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