Essays, notes, and field reports
Posted on Substack, collected here. Mostly about building, operating, and the strange middle where the two meet. Click through to read.
What restaurant operations taught me about shipping software, and where the analogy quietly breaks.
Notes on leaving a career you were good at for one you're not good at yet.
Why the phone is the most underrated UI in small business, and what it takes to make one that doesn't feel insulting.
A quieter way to share what you're making, for people who don't want to post eight times a day.
Prompt engineering, explained by someone who used to write line schedules on the wall.
What I made, what I killed, and what it felt like to work without an audience for a while.
The transferable skills nobody talks about: improvisation, tolerance for chaos, and reading the room.
Less than you'd think, more than you'd guess. A short report from the other side.
How a newsletter about starting over found its first readers, and what I'd skip if I did it again.