The archive

33 essays
No. 033
Conway's Law in Reverse
Essay · July 31, 2026 · 5 min read
No. 032
The Pin Factory and the Poem
Essay · July 28, 2026 · 6 min read
No. 031
The First Software That Can Sell Out
Essay · July 21, 2026 · 5 min read
No. 030
Worth Doing Badly
Essay · July 8, 2026 · 5 min read
No. 029
The Field Manual for Agentic Engineering
Essay · May 6, 2026 · 6 min read
No. 028
Five Notes from the Sequoia Stage
Essay · April 30, 2026 · 6 min read
No. 027
Why Faster AI Doesn't Make Faster Companies
Essay · April 23, 2026 · 5 min read
No. 026
The Great Inversion
AI strategy · April 17, 2026 · 5 min read
No. 025
Building for the Wrong Model
AI strategy · April 16, 2026 · 6 min read
No. 024
Trust, But Verify
Craft · April 10, 2026 · 6 min read
No. 023
Leeloo Dallas, Memorypass
Field notes · April 8, 2026 · 4 min read
No. 022
Say What You Mean
Craft · April 8, 2026 · 6 min read
No. 021
The Taste Gap
Craft · April 5, 2026 · 8 min read
No. 020
Think in Pieces
Essay · April 4, 2026 · 7 min read
No. 019
The Spec Is the Product
Essay · April 3, 2026 · 7 min read
No. 018
The New Management
Craft · April 1, 2026 · 6 min read
No. 017
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the K-Shaped Economy
Field notes · March 28, 2026 · 4 min read
No. 016
It Is Time to Boil the Ocean
Essay · March 27, 2026 · 7 min read
No. 015
The Kitchen Is Open
Essay · March 20, 2026 · 7 min read
No. 014
I Know Kung Fu: Loading Only What the Mission Needs
Essay · February 19, 2026 · 5 min read
No. 013
The $690B Question Wall Street Can't Answer
Essay · February 17, 2026 · 6 min read
No. 012
Clawdbought: How OpenAI Acquired the Biggest Open-Source Agent
Hot take · February 16, 2026 · 4 min read
No. 011
When Intelligence Organizes Itself
Essay · February 12, 2026 · 4 min read
No. 010
147,000 GitHub Stars in Two Weeks. Mac Mini Shortages. A 24% Stock Surge. The Market Just Told You Something.
Essay · February 3, 2026 · 4 min read
No. 009
Claude Has Character. Your AI Has a Script.
Essay · January 30, 2026 · 7 min read
No. 008
Anthropic Is Quietly Winning the AI Race
Essay · January 23, 2026 · 5 min read
No. 007
Your IDE is a Dead Pixel
Essay · January 20, 2026 · 5 min read
No. 006
The Ancient Art of Knowing Less
Architecture · January 13, 2026 · 5 min read
No. 005
The Memento Problem
Craft · January 9, 2026 · 6 min read
No. 004
The Bookshelf in the Black Hole
Essay · January 7, 2026 · 5 min read
No. 003
The Genius Who Can't Say 'I Don't Know'
Essay · December 18, 2025 · 5 min read
No. 002
Learning FORTRAN
Field notes · December 15, 2025 · 4 min read
No. 001
MCP and the Token Tax
AI strategy · December 8, 2025 · 3 min read