Building with no audience, no signal, and no external pressure

Building with no audience, no signal, and no external pressure. What that's actually like. There's a version of this post that's about discipline and systems and how I stay productive. That's not thi...

The real cost of a broken handoff — and why it never shows up in your retrospective

The retrospective says: miscommunication. Misaligned expectations. Unclear requirements. It never s...

Gestalt is live. What building it revealed about the problem it solves

I built Gestalt because I kept running into the same wall. I was building multiple products simulta...

What SR-SI actually is - and why I stopped explaining it as an AI trick

For the past year, whenever I described SR-SI to someone, I'd watch their eyes settle on the wrong t...

You can't install psychological safety with a form

You can't just yell "360!" and expect honesty to appear like magic. Most companies roll out 360 fee...