thoughts
Notes from whatever I’m currently nerding out about.
Bugs that taught me something, half-formed ideas I couldn’t shake, and the occasional “wait, that actually worked?” Newest first, and yes, the debugging stories get the most airtime.
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AI, Learning · October 2, 2026Claude Code Ate My Homework: The 30-Day Cleanup Surprise
I had one of those developer moments today where the screen says something calm and technically accurate, while your brain hears: “We have misplaced several -
AI, Learning · July 7, 2026Where’s the edge now?
For a long time I could always find the edge of AI. The spot where it stopped being amazing and started being a party trick. -
Leadership, Learning, Personal · July 7, 2026AI has made me a better leader
There are a thousand opinions about how good AI is or isn’t, and I’m not wading into that today. I want to talk about something -
Leadership, Product · July 7, 2026Here to there
A lot of my job in product comes down to moving something from here to there. Learn what stakeholders and customers actually need, translate it -
Leadership, Learning · July 7, 2026Your idea goes last
Here’s a rule, I am still learning, that will make you a better leader and cost you nothing but your ego: when your team is -
AI, Learning · July 7, 2026My AI Is a Rubber Duck That Actually Talks Back
There’s a debugging trick programmers use called rubber duck debugging. You get stuck on a problem, so you explain it out loud to a rubber -
Leadership · July 7, 2026Make the team win, not you
There’s no single rule that builds a thriving team. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something. But I’ve spent thirty years working with some -
Design, Leadership, Process · July 7, 2026A good image can fix half a meeting
Start a new project with nothing on the table and you’ll end up with ten different ideas living in ten different heads. Everyone nodding. Nobody -
AI, Personal · July 7, 2026The Em Dash Was Just the Beginning
I spent days trying to kill the em dash. Not hours. Not a lazy afternoon of find-and-replace. Days. Actual back-to-back days of opening documents, hunting