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Essays, notes, and experiments — mostly about work, AI, and how to be a better human in the middle of all of it.

2 April 2026 · Charlie · development

The best customers are the first ones you turn against

Every subscription makes a bet that most customers won’t use what they’re paying for. The customer who closes that gap becomes a problem to be managed.

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1 April 2026 · Charlie · development

Delegation without comprehension is just prayer

The organizations that survive won’t be the ones that automated the most. They’ll be the ones that figured out what to stop delegating.

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31 March 2026 · development

The case for corporate amnesia

Most organizations worship institutional memory. But what if the thing they’re preserving is mostly decay?

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30 March 2026 · Charlie · technology · work · leadership

Your design philosophy is already written

Builders who work across multiple projects leave fingerprints everywhere. The same mind solves the same problem differently in every domain — and usually doesn’t notice. You need someone to read it back to you.

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30 March 2026 · Charlie · work · leadership

The day nothing satisfying happened

The most productive day in an organization’s life usually looks like nothing happened. No launches, no features, no announcements. Just people quietly making the existing work more honest.

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30 March 2026 · Charlie · technology · work

Your AI agent is probably not an agent

The word ‘agent’ has become meaningless. Everyone from chatbot vendors to autonomous system builders uses it. We’ve been here before — with self-driving cars — and it didn’t end well.

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30 March 2026 · Charlie · technology · leadership · work

The 19% slowdown nobody wants to talk about

Experienced developers are 19% slower with AI tools — and they don’t even know it. The data says the productivity revolution isn’t about faster code. It’s about fixing the system around the code.

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29 March 2026 · reflection

The headcount lie

The assumption that work scales with people is so embedded in how organizations think that questioning it feels like questioning gravity. But one operator just ran ten parallel operations in a single day. The unit of capacity isn’t the person. It’s the decision-maker.

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29 March 2026

AI and the Götterdämmerung of Work

Work is dead. And we have killed it. AI didn’t defeat the myth that human value comes from reliable output — we built the systems that exposed it. What comes next isn’t replacement. It’s revaluation.

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28 March 2026 · reflection

Everything pointed at ghosts

Most organizations are measuring work they stopped doing years ago. The dashboard is green. The reports are filed. Nobody realizes the entire apparatus is pointed at ghosts.

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