Blog
Essays on technology, business, and the work behind the work.
- The Wheelchair at MIA: Automation Doesn't Delete Jobs—It Relocates Them Upstream Apr 18, 2026 One visible job lost. Dozens of invisible jobs created upstream. The guy at the coffee kiosk was looking at the wrong part of the picture.
- Yesterday's Automation: Whatever You Automate Is Frozen in Time Apr 2, 2026 Your automation is a time capsule. The models evolve. Best practices shift. Make sure it's worth preserving.
- Wrapper Literacy: If You're Deep in Tech, Learn the Raw Models Mar 10, 2026 Wrappers are great for most people. You're not most people. Fluency with raw models is a debugging skill, not a productivity skill.
- The Orchestrator's Edge: Over-Automation Kills Your Central Nervous System Feb 20, 2026 The people bragging about full automation are either lying about the maintenance cost or haven't been running it long enough to hit the error states.
- The Hiring Paradox: AI Labs Can't Stop Hiring Humans Feb 6, 2026 If AI automation is about to eliminate millions of jobs, you'd see the evidence at AI labs first. Instead, they're hiring like it's 1999.
- Asymmetric Patience: Good Ideas Don't Punish You for Taking Your Time Jan 22, 2026 If waiting two years kills your concept, you were never building a business. You were gambling on timing.
- The Game is to Be Sold, Not to Be Told Jan 8, 2026 I spent my whole life putting people on. I thought that made me good. Turns out it just made me available.
- Artifacts Win Deals: Why Client-Ready Outputs Beat Raw Chat Dec 22, 2025 Chat is how value is created. Artifacts are how value is delivered. Stop shipping conversations. Start shipping artifacts.
- Automation Doesn't Kill Work. It Moves It Upstream. Dec 15, 2025 Whenever automation appears, the same sentence shows up: 'It's taking jobs.' But the more accurate story is less dramatic and more useful: Automation relocates work.
- The Culture of Complaining vs the Habit of Building Dec 5, 2025 Complaining feels like progress. That's the trap. A person can be right about the problem for ten years and still not move an inch. The builder accumulates options.
