Writing

The gap between a promising prototype and a system you'd trust with real work is wider than it looks.

What I've noticed about the teams that make distributed work feel effortless.

Most complexity is accidental. A few heuristics I keep coming back to.

Six months of building something nobody asked for — and what it taught me about product judgment.

On the difference between delivering work and doing work — and how easy it is to confuse the two.

A mental model for where language models add the most value in a system — and where they're mostly hype.

The questions I always ask before writing a line of code.

Why the discipline of writing forces clarity that meetings never do.