Essays, notes, and recurring threads.
Writing on systems, product, and craft, kept here. The personal essays and longer-form work live on In Principle.
Good systems reduce panic
A quieter test for system quality—the one that survives a year on call.
A boundary is a promise
Apr 2025A boundary that no one trusts is not a boundary. It is a wall with a door someone forgot to lock.
Systems shape the questions that get asked of them. The most expensive ones are the questions a system makes hard to ask.
Continuity over intensity
Feb 2025A short essay on why the second-year experience is the real product.
Taste is disciplined reduction
Feb 2025Why most attempts at taste produce things that are merely styled.
A product is also an operating model
Jan 2025To change a product durably, design both surfaces—the one users touch, and the one that produces it.