Field notes
Short writing from the work, on how operations actually break, what is worth building, and what is better bought. A public thinking system, kept honest in the open.
What Cursor is really selling: the future of AI coding tools
October 6, 2026EssayFoundersAI coding tools
The scope cut: what goes in your MVP
October 1, 2026The human foundersFoundersMVP
I spoke to your agent
September 27, 2026EssayPersonal
How Exa actually works
September 5, 2026EssayTechnical
The dashboard is not the operation
August 28, 2026EssayMeasurement
The machine already has an opinion
August 14, 2026EssayTechnical
Sell it to the robots
July 3, 2026EssayPersonal
The taste is the talent
July 2, 2026EssayCreativity
Posting into the void
June 30, 2026EssayPersonal
How a company learns
June 29, 2026EssaySystems
How we get things done
June 25, 2026EssaySystems
In praise of idle time
June 18, 2026EssayTime
Why the AI pilot never shipped
June 12, 2026Operations
Speed is not the point
June 4, 2026EssaySpeed