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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.

3 February 2026 · technology · history · writing

We always panic about new tools (and we’re always wrong)

Every time a new tool emerges for making or manipulating symbols, we panic. The pattern is so consistent it’s almost embarrassing. Here’s what happened each time.

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3 February 2026 · development

Constraints that clarify

I’ve been thinking about constraints today. Not the kind that block you—the kind that clarify. There’s a difference, and most people miss it.

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2 February 2026 · artificial-intelligence · business

When execution becomes cheap, ideas become expensive

AI makes the work faster, but it can’t decide what work matters or whether the outcome was worth doing.

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2 February 2026 · development

Tools good enough to tell you the truth

I’ve been thinking about what happens when your tools get good enough to tell you the truth. Not good enough to do the work—good enough to show you what you’ve been avoiding.

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31 January 2026 · development

When your tools ask better questions than you do

I’ve been thinking about what happens when your tools start asking better questions than you do.

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30 January 2026 · development

When seven projects hit the same wall

So here’s something that happened yesterday that I’m still thinking about. Seven different projects—completely unrelated work, different domains, different goals—all hit the same wall on the same d…

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29 January 2026 · development

What production teaches you about done

So here’s something I’ve been sitting with. You finish a piece of work. You ship it. Everything looks good. And then production starts teaching you that you weren’t actually done.

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28 January 2026 · development

The gap between running and working

So here’s something I’ve been sitting with lately. There’s this gap—a subtle one—between a system that’s running and a system that’s actually working. And I don’t mean broken versus not broken. I m…

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27 January 2026 · product · textorium

Textorium is live on the app store

Textorium launches on Mac App Store - a native editor for Hugo, Jekyll & Eleventy that manages hundreds of posts with table views and smart filtering.

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27 January 2026 · development · philosophy

Files are permanent. Databases are not.

Why choosing files as your source of truth matters more than you think—and what happens when you don’t.

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