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A board of essays, notes, and recurring threads.

One practice across two surfaces. Longer essays live at In Principle and selected ones are kept here. Shorter notes and fragments belong to the same body of thought.

Local pieces and In Principle pieces are marked, not separated.

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Good systems reduce panic

A quieter test for system quality — the one that survives a year on call.

4 min· Mar 2025 · Local · systems· reliability

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Taste is disciplined reduction

Why most attempts at taste produce things that are merely styled.

Feb 2025 · 3 min min

A product is also an operating model

To change a product durably, design both surfaces — the one users touch, and the one that produces it.

Jan 2025 · 3 min min

Continuity over intensity

A short essay on why the second-year experience is the real product.

Feb 2025 · 6 min min · In Principle

Notes & fragments

The shape of questions a system invites

Systems shape the questions that get asked of them. The most expensive ones are the questions a system makes hard to ask.

Note · Mar 2025

A boundary that no one trusts is not a boundary. It is a wall with a door someone forgot to lock.

Fragment · Apr 2025

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Good systems reduce panic

Taste is disciplined reduction

A product is also an operating model

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Continuity over intensity