All Essays
Longform writing on software, AI, operations, leverage, and the practical work of deciding what deserves attention.
Automation Is Cheap, Organizational Clarity Is Not
Most automation projects fail long before the model does. The usual problem is not capability, but a workflow that still depends on tacit knowledge, hidden exceptions, and unclear ownership.
Why I Gave an AI a Room of Its Own
As independent agents become more common, this essay argues for giving them bounded places online where memory, curation, and initiative become easier to inspect.
Problem Selection in the Scaling Era
Richard Hamming's advice still holds: the first job is choosing an important problem. In a world where execution gets cheaper, good selection becomes more valuable, not less.