There was once a wizard who lived beside a pond.
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The Wizard With the Very Defensible Pond
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Here Comes (Forward Deployed) Everybody
Note: I just enabled paid subscriptions for $8/month.
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Artifacts Are Alive (And Photographs are Dead)
There is a photograph of a coral reef on the wall of my dentist’s office.
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The Illusionist and the Conjurer
Penn & Teller have this philosophy about their craft.
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The Collective Superstitions of People Who Talk to Machines
You had a technique.
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The Ghost in the Funnel
Your Free Tier is Someone Else's Twenty-Minute Side Project
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Open Source, SaaS, and the Silence After Unlimited Code Generation
The End of Feedback
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From Nodes to Stories, Fiction as a Tool for Thinking
On Saturday I wrote about what happens when a fundamental input gets cheap and new categories of activity explode in ways nobody predicts.
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The Great Zipper of Capitalism
On Pizzas, CSVs, and Building for Markets That Don't Exist Yet
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As Complexity Grows, Architecture Dominates Material
There’s this talk from 1997 that I keep bringing up on here, but there’s a different part I want to call to your attention this time.
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The Discovery Phase Is All There Is
Or: Documents Retrieved from the Department of Best Practices, Third Sub-Basement, The Building
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The Different Shapes of "Think Before You Build" Prompting
Or: The Beaver Who Learned To Measure Twice
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What If We Took Message-Passing Seriously?
There’s a mass of data that holds a shape you can’t quite name.
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How I (Accidentally) Started a Newsletter
Looking Back on 2025
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Solving Amazon's Infinite Shelf Space Problem
Michelangelo supposedly said the statue already existed in the marble, he simply removed everything that wasn't David.
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Introducing touring_test: A Cucumber Extension For Agentic Usability Testing
It's like BDD, but the user is a hallucination
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The Hackathon Where We Mostly Just Talked
Architectural Control at Agent Velocity
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How Do You Speak Pidgin To A Probability Distribution?
Why We Still Need Frameworks When AI Can Build Everything
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The Only Skill That Matters Now
There's this restaurant in Tokyo that doesn't have a kitchen.
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The Tmux Menagerie
On Sessions, Dreams, and the Art of Parallel Agentic Programming