Mar 2026
Cartown
After many improvements by the people of Cartown, the airplane wasn’t much of an airplane anymore.

AI won’t kill middle management. It will reveal how much of it was organizational duct tape.
After many improvements by the people of Cartown, the airplane wasn’t much of an airplane anymore.
Optimization made us efficient. AI may demand something different.
They build instead of buy. They want your API, not your UI.
Complacency doesn’t feel like decline. It feels like confidence.
Essays on technology, work, and the risk of optimizing the wrong thing.