Building companies has given me plenty to write about. So has being a parent, paying attention to design, and wondering what all this technology is doing to us.
Your dashboard can show you a problem and still leave you with the whole job. As software takes on more work, what should count as finished?
Read the essayI build with AI to take work off people’s plates. But who gets to decide what happens to the time it saves?
AI can make a new service easier to build. It doesn’t make the promises to customers disappear. A small team needs room to keep them.
A few pieces from the archive. Kept as written, with their original dates. I don’t expect every opinion to age perfectly.
On persistence, personal limits, and getting to know the person building the company: you.
What client projects taught me about trust and treating contractors as part of the team.
A design question I keep coming back to: how do people find their rhythm in a system?
Follow along for what I’m building, what I’m questioning, and what I’m learning from other people.