Writing
Essays on building, technology, and learning in public.
The Builders Are Alright
AI isn't coming for everyone equally. If you're a builder, this is the most leveraged moment of your career. If most of your day is tangential to building, that's the part to pay attention to.
How I'm Using AI to Replace Myself at Work
A walkthrough of the setup I built that lets AI do real chunks of my job. Two free tools, one folder, and a Claude Code session can have you running by tonight.
Nobody Is an AI Expert
'AI expert' has become one of the most overused titles on the internet, and it quietly makes conversations worse. I don't think the thing it points at actually exists.
The End of Selling Software to Technical Users
A whole economy exists around selling tools to people who can now build their own. I don't think most of those companies realize what's coming.
Your Agents Are Your Fastest Engineers and Your Most Uninformed Ones
Every AI agent on your team is a brilliant new hire on their first day. Every single session. Here's why that's costing you more than you think.
We're All Pretending to Know More Than We Do, and It's About to Get Worse
AI is collapsing the gap between knowing nothing and speaking confidently. I think that's going to create a lot of people who sound like experts but aren't.
How Agent Memory Works
Your AI agent forgets everything between sessions. Here's why, what the options are, and what I learned building a memory system from scratch.
I Treated My Agents Like Humans. I Built Engram to Solve Their Problems.
I built a memory protocol for AI agents because mine kept forgetting everything. Today it's live on Product Hunt.
How I Built This Website with Claude Code
A practical guide to building your first website with Claude Code, using mine as the example. Part two in the Zero to AI Hero series.
Why Highly Skilled People Are the Most Skeptical About AI
The people with the most skill tend to be the least impressed by AI. That's not a contradiction. It makes perfect sense.
Zero to AI Hero
A non-technical guide to how AI works, how to use it well, and the tools and concepts that actually matter. Ends with an exercise so you can try it yourself.
How I Actually Use AI to Build Things
What I've learned from 700 conversations with Claude Code, the mistakes I made early on, and the practices that actually work.
Why I'm Building in Public
The case for sharing your work before it's ready, and what I've learned from doing it.