Writing.
Essays on building software, working with AI agents, and the judgement calls in between.
Articles
- Pull Handle, Push Door The app worked from the first day. It took months of using it to see the friction in it.
- Am I Getting Lazier? I was handing more of my work to an AI each day, and every time I had a good reason.
- Brains, But No Hands My wife was reviewing suggestions by hand, and I started wondering what documents are actually for
- The I’s That Bind Finding my Buddhism in the science fiction I love.
- The Average Isn’t You An AI hands you the average of everything it has seen. The one thing it leaves out is you.
- The Organizational Layer AI Is Missing I wasn’t building one. I was just trying to use it.
- Working Faster Was Wearing Me Out AI made the work go quicker. But something else was wearing thin.
- Don’t Break the Silence We rush past the moments that could teach us the most, because they make us feel uncomfortable.
- We Passed Our Dysfunction to AI The same patterns I’d seen in human teams showed up in my AI agents
- A Small Itch, Finally Scratched I built a tiny app and it got me wondering about what stopped me before.
- The Feeling Stays How a film about forgetting showed me what the body holds.
- Dress Me Slowly, I’m in a Hurry How a quote from my favorite MotoGP rider got me thinking about the pressure to perform and how we deal with it.
- The Car on the Catamaran A photo, a drive across continents, and a question about what shapes us.
- The Things That Make Us — Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’s “The Life of the Stars” How one episode turned a TV show into something I couldn’t stop thinking about.