Writing
October 20, 2025
Beyond the Machine
Creative agency in the AI landscape.
On using generative AI as an instrument rather than an ideology, a tool, or a weapon — and what it means to honor decades of honed skills in an era of amorphous taste.
August 12, 2025
The Quiet Craft
Notes on slow software.
Why the most lasting tools are the ones that disappear into the work, and how restraint can become a design principle in its own right.
May 3, 2025
No Shortcuts
Building durable systems.
A short essay on the seductions of expediency and what we lose when we automate too soon.
February 18, 2025
Small Tools, Small Teams
Returning to the workshop.
How keeping the tooling small keeps the team small, and how a small team writes the kind of software you'd want to live in.
November 29, 2024
On Attention
What we trade and what we keep.
A meditation on attention as the only nonrenewable resource a working life is made of, and the small disciplines that protect it.