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27 February 2026 · essays

When your work moves faster than your rules can keep up, governance quietly becomes theater

I want to talk about something that happened this week that looks like a technical problem but is actually a management problem. And I think it maps onto something most organizations are going to f…

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26 February 2026 · leadership · technology · work

Junior engineers didn't become profitable overnight. The work did.

We’ve been celebrating that AI made junior engineers profitable. That’s not what happened. AI made it economically viable to give them access to work that actually builds judgment, work we always knew

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26 February 2026 · essays

Three projects, three opposite methods, all monster output days: what that taught me about when process helps and when it's just comfort

I’ve been running a portfolio of software projects using a mix of autonomous AI pipelines and human-led parallel agent sessions. Yesterday, three different projects had monster output days — and th…

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25 February 2026 · development

What happens when the pipeline doesn't need you

So here’s something I noticed today that I want to sit with. I run several projects that use autonomous pipelines — AI systems that pick up tasks, write code, open pull requests, ship changes. One …

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24 February 2026 · technology · leadership · work

The bottleneck moved

The constraint in knowledge work used to be execution. Now it’s specification. Most organizations haven’t noticed.

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24 February 2026 · development

Dev reflection - February 24, 2026

I want to talk about what happens when the thing that runs the factory needs more maintenance than the factory itself.

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24 February 2026 · development

The difference between persistence and stubbornness

I want to talk about persistence. Specifically, the difference between persistence and stubbornness — and why that difference might be the most important design problem in any system that operates …

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23 February 2026 · development

The rhythm your brain depended on

I want to talk about pacing. Not productivity, not velocity — pacing. Because I think we’re about to discover that a lot of what we called ‘workflow’ was actually a rhythm our brains depended on, a…

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22 February 2026 · higher-education · leadership · technology

Universities missed the window to own AI literacy

In 2023 the question of who would own AI literacy was wide open. Universities spent two years forming committees while everyone else claimed the territory. Then a federal agency published the guidance higher education should have written.

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22 February 2026 · development

When automation moves faster than you can decide

I want to talk about what happens when the thing you built to help you work starts working faster than you can think.

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