Essays on building companies, making sense of AI, and life outside work.
Digital days for building and working. Analog nights for the life around it. Some writing belongs to both.
From numbers you show off to decisions you can act on. What I want from AI, and where I still want a person involved.
Read the essayExample: reviewing overdue invoices
More invoices are overdue.
Missed follow-up, disputed charges, or slow payment? Check the records.
Choose the action and who owns it.
Record what happened and check again at the next review.
I want a conversation without a notification competing with the person in front of me. That is the analog life I want more of.
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.
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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?