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29 essays
Essay · July 21, 2026 · 5 min read
The First Software That Can Sell Out
Essay · July 8, 2026 · 5 min read
Worth Doing Badly
Essay · May 6, 2026 · 6 min read
The Field Manual for Agentic Engineering
Essay · April 30, 2026 · 6 min read
Five Notes from the Sequoia Stage
Essay · April 23, 2026 · 5 min read
Why Faster AI Doesn't Make Faster Companies
AI strategy · April 17, 2026 · 5 min read
The Great Inversion
AI strategy · April 16, 2026 · 6 min read
Building for the Wrong Model
Craft · April 10, 2026 · 6 min read
Trust, But Verify
Field notes · April 8, 2026 · 4 min read
Leeloo Dallas, Memorypass
Craft · April 8, 2026 · 6 min read
Say What You Mean
Craft · April 5, 2026 · 8 min read
The Taste Gap
Essay · April 4, 2026 · 7 min read
Think in Pieces
Essay · April 3, 2026 · 7 min read
The Spec Is the Product
Craft · April 1, 2026 · 6 min read
The New Management
Field notes · March 28, 2026 · 4 min read
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the K-Shaped Economy
Essay · March 27, 2026 · 7 min read
It Is Time to Boil the Ocean
Essay · March 20, 2026 · 7 min read
The Kitchen Is Open
Essay · February 19, 2026 · 5 min read
I Know Kung Fu: Loading Only What the Mission Needs
Essay · February 17, 2026 · 6 min read
The $690B Question Wall Street Can't Answer
Hot take · February 16, 2026 · 4 min read
Clawdbought: How OpenAI Acquired the Biggest Open-Source Agent
Essay · February 12, 2026 · 4 min read
When Intelligence Organizes Itself
Essay · February 3, 2026 · 4 min read
147,000 GitHub Stars in Two Weeks. Mac Mini Shortages. A 24% Stock Surge. The Market Just Told You Something.
Essay · January 30, 2026 · 7 min read
Claude Has Character. Your AI Has a Script.
Essay · January 23, 2026 · 5 min read
Anthropic Is Quietly Winning the AI Race
Essay · January 20, 2026 · 5 min read
Your IDE is a Dead Pixel
Architecture · January 13, 2026 · 5 min read
The Ancient Art of Knowing Less
Essay · January 7, 2026 · 5 min read
The Bookshelf in the Black Hole
Essay · December 18, 2025 · 5 min read
The Genius Who Can't Say 'I Don't Know'
Field notes · December 15, 2025 · 4 min read
Learning FORTRAN