Mar 2026
Cartown
After many improvements by the people of Cartown, the airplane wasn’t much of an airplane anymore.
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What’s a middle manager anyways?
AI won’t kill middle management. It will reveal how much of it was organizational duct tape.
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Mar 2026
Why Faster Horses?
Optimization made us efficient. AI may demand something different.
Feb 2026
The age of the “vibesumer”
They build instead of buy. They want your API, not your UI.
Feb 2026
The complacency zone
Complacency doesn’t feel like decline. It feels like confidence.
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Essays on technology, work, and the risk of optimizing the wrong thing.