Writing
Things I think about — architecture, AI, building products, and the decisions that matter.
The Code Is The Cheap Part Now
If an app can be rebuilt overnight, your moat has to be somewhere else. Here's what actually matters when the code itself is no longer the hard part....
Empathy Is The Hard Problem
Philip K. Dick saw it in 1968. Intelligence was never the hard problem. Empathy was....
Your Brain Has a Bandwidth Limit
Most founders treat their brain like a server — always on, always available, always processing. But pretending your cognitive bandwidth is unlimited isn't a strategy — it's a countdown to bad decisions....
Restraint Is a Superpower
With the rise of AI coding the barrier to building is basically gone. That's made the skill of knowing what not to build more important than ever....
The Rebuild Is The Strategy
I was airlifted off a mountain in Switzerland. The doctor said twelve weeks recovery. Four weeks later, I was back in the wind tunnel....
Investors Don't Care About Your Tech
They care about your insight into the market. Your experience navigating it. Your judgment on where it's heading....
What Makes Software Defensible in an AI World?
If an AI can generate your core offering from scratch every time a user needs it, you don't have a product. You have a prompt....