The archive
33 essays
No. 033
Conway's Law in Reverse
No. 032
The Pin Factory and the Poem
No. 031
The First Software That Can Sell Out
No. 030
Worth Doing Badly
No. 029
The Field Manual for Agentic Engineering
No. 028
Five Notes from the Sequoia Stage
No. 027
Why Faster AI Doesn't Make Faster Companies
No. 026
The Great Inversion
No. 025
Building for the Wrong Model
No. 024
Trust, But Verify
No. 023
Leeloo Dallas, Memorypass
No. 022
Say What You Mean
No. 021
The Taste Gap
No. 020
Think in Pieces
No. 019
The Spec Is the Product
No. 018
The New Management
No. 017
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the K-Shaped Economy
No. 016
It Is Time to Boil the Ocean
No. 015
The Kitchen Is Open
No. 014
I Know Kung Fu: Loading Only What the Mission Needs
No. 013
The $690B Question Wall Street Can't Answer
No. 012
Clawdbought: How OpenAI Acquired the Biggest Open-Source Agent
No. 011
When Intelligence Organizes Itself
No. 010
147,000 GitHub Stars in Two Weeks. Mac Mini Shortages. A 24% Stock Surge. The Market Just Told You Something.
No. 009
Claude Has Character. Your AI Has a Script.
No. 008
Anthropic Is Quietly Winning the AI Race
No. 007
Your IDE is a Dead Pixel
No. 006
The Ancient Art of Knowing Less
No. 005
The Memento Problem
No. 004
The Bookshelf in the Black Hole
No. 003
The Genius Who Can't Say 'I Don't Know'
No. 002
Learning FORTRAN
No. 001
MCP and the Token Tax