The archive
Things I have written,
mostly on purpose.
Short opinion takes and deep technical essays on software, strategy, and the mess in between. New posts appear here when I have something worth saying, not on a schedule.
Quick Take 3 min
Anthropic built something they are afraid to ship
Anthropic says they built a model too powerful to release. If that sounds familiar, it is. Except this one actually found a 27-year-old security bug.
Technical 6 min
Stop rewriting legacy code. Wrap it.
The urge to rewrite a legacy system is almost always an emotional reaction to debugging something you did not write. Here is the unglamorous alternative that works.
Quick Take 3 min
The one meeting your clients actually need
Not the kickoff. Not the weekly sync. The one where you sit down and ask, out loud, what winning looks like, then write it down where both of you can see it.