Writing
Ideas & Essays
Thinking out loud on business strategy, technology, and what it takes to build things that last.
A Smarter Model Won't Fix a Missing Process
I published the skills I use to take an idea to shipped work with an agent. The value is not in any one skill; it is in how each hands its output to the next.
Keeping Work Safe on a System That Runs Itself
Post 1 of the Failures That Shaped It: the automated process that keeps two machines in step can also erase your work, and the five ways it taught durability.
The Failures That Shaped It
An autonomous system is mostly a set of defenses against itself. Nine classes of failure that shaped a self-governing AI system, and the safeguards that answer each.
Building the Missing Structure
The first thing I built was a student government that didn't exist yet. The pattern that came from it, and why this site is a workshop, not a showroom.
The Best Model Shouldn't Do the Most Work
When you get a frontier model, the instinct is to hand it everything. The economics and the architecture argue for the opposite.
Three Days of Sun
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5 to the public, then a government directive pulled it three days later. The lesson isn't about the model. It's about what you build around it.
Why I'm Building in Public
Shipping a portfolio is easy. Building one that actually reflects how you think is the hard part. Here's why I chose to do it in the open.