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Essays, notes, and experiments — mostly about work, AI, and how to be a better human in the middle of all of it.

4 March 2026

The loop nobody bothers to close

Most systems observe. Almost none learn. The difference is a feedback loop — and the boring cleanup work that makes it possible.

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3 March 2026 · technology · leadership · work

Your process was built for a different speed

When work changes velocity, governance systems don’t just fall behind. They become theater. And theater is worse than nothing—it gives you the feeling of control without any of the substance.

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3 March 2026 · development

The difference between shipping and finishing

Shipping is mechanical. Finishing is a judgment call. And most organizations have quietly made it impossible to tell the difference.

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2 March 2026 · essays

Nothing is finished until you say it is

Continuous delivery removed the endings from work. That felt like progress. But without formal completion, you lose the ability to say what you actually accomplished — and more importantly, what you’re done thinking about.

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1 March 2026 · development

Your biggest problems are the ones running fine

The most dangerous failures in any system — technical or organizational — aren’t the ones throwing errors. They’re the ones that appear to work perfectly. And they’ll keep appearing to work perfectly right up until they don’t.

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28 February 2026 · technology · leadership · work

The work that remains

When AI handles implementation, the human job shifts from doing the work to understanding the work. Speed without understanding is just technical debt with better commit messages.

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28 February 2026 · essays

The day all five of my AI projects stopped building and started cleaning

I want to talk about something that happened this week that I almost missed because it looked boring. Five separate software projects — all mine, all running semi-autonomously with AI pipelines — i…

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27 February 2026 · development

The silence that ships

Three projects independently discovered the same bug pattern today — code that reports success when something important didn’t happen. The most dangerous failures don’t look like failures at all.

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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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