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 …
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 …
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…
I want to talk about the difference between execution and verification. Because something happened this week that made the distinction painfully clear, and I think it matters far beyond software.
There’s a moment in any system—a team, a company, a workflow—where the thing you’ve been optimizing for stops being the constraint. And you don’t notice right away. You keep pushing on the old bott…
I want to talk about staging areas. Not the technical kind—the human kind. The places where work goes to sit. The inbox you check before forwarding. The draft folder. The approval queue. The meetin…
So here’s something I want to think through today. I’ve been working across several projects simultaneously, and what’s striking me isn’t the building. It’s the deleting. The removing. The taking a…