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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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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 · 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 · 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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14 February 2026 · work · philosophy

You can’t skip the hard part

Reskilling won’t save you. Frameworks won’t save you. The work of becoming human again is personal, uncomfortable, and has no shortcut.

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12 February 2026 · work · philosophy

Busy was always avoidance

Staying busy kept you from noticing where you were. AI didn’t create the abyss—it just forced you to look.

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10 February 2026 · work · AI · philosophy

You were trained to suppress yourself

Organizations didn’t accidentally reward the machine-self. They engineered it. And you cooperated because it worked—until now.

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3 February 2026 · technology · history · writing

We always panic about new tools (and we’re always wrong)

Every time a new tool emerges for making or manipulating symbols, we panic. The pattern is so consistent it’s almost embarrassing. Here’s what happened each time.

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6 January 2026 · artificial-intelligence · culture

When teaching stops being bounded

AI removes the constraints that gave teaching its shape—one teacher, thirty students, limited time. But lifting constraints doesn’t make the work easier. It makes it different. Teachers trained for a bounded classroom now face an unbounded role that requires judgment, discernment, and presence in ways we haven’t yet mapped.

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31 December 2025 · artificial-intelligence · culture · labor

Why your job matters more than mine: The selective morality of job loss

Throughout history, some jobs get moral protection while others are just casualties of progress. The pattern reveals that job protection isn’t about the work itself—it’s about class, power, and who gets to write the story.

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