Essays

Longer-form writing that documents systems, decisions, and frameworks as they take shape.

Following what's lit up when you don't have a plan

Not a strategy. Just noticing what keeps being interesting and building there.

You can lose a domain without losing the craft underneath it. The loss just makes the craft visible.

The disruption wasn't the day the job ended. It was the two years of uncertainty that came before it.

When systems fail visibly, we fix them. When they fail invisibly, we optimize the wrong thing.