Essays
Private meditations on building AI-native operations. Not thought leadership. Not content marketing. Notes from the bunker.
- Building as Meditation
- My CLAUDE.md
- Cosplay as Quality Assurance: Running 300 Fake Clients Through Production Code
- Ego Depletion: Why I Built an AI to Compensate for Being Human
- There Is No Winning, Only Surviving
- The Twilio Incident
- The Cost Collapse: How Cost Leadership Became the Infinite Lever
- What 4,298 Email Threads Taught an AI About Selling Circuit Breakers
- How I Won $200K From My Insurance Company Using a Socratic Yes/No Framework
- The Renters Insurance Play: Vertical Expansion at Zero Marginal Cost
- The Death of Doubt
- 30,000 Conversations a Day: What the Data Looks Like
- One tmux, Eight Sessions, Zero Engineers
- Stranded in Delhi, Deploying From Vienna
- git log --oneline | wc -l
- Why I Replaced My Engineering Team With AI
- The Overnight Machine: Building Systems That Run While You Sleep
- The Decomposition: From Monolith to Microservices in a Sales Organization
- The One-Person Engineering Team: How I Push More Code Than a Department
- Red Teams All the Way Down: Adversarial Testing for AI Agents
- Three Loops: Retro, Macro, Meta