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I've spent two decades building software and leading technology teams. Every week, I write about AI, technology strategy, and leadership. No hype. Just lessons from the trenches for leaders who have to ship, not just speculate.

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The 1% Error That Ruins Everything

Why AI agents are mathematically doomed - and what to build instead

Featured post: The 1% Error That Ruins Everything

In 2025, 42% of companies abandoned most of their AI initiatives - up from just 17% the year before. The culprit wasn't bad implementation or insufficient data.

Believe the Checkbook

Believe the Checkbook

AI companies talk as if engineering is over. Their acquisitions say the opposite.

The Most Expensive Wall in Software

The Most Expensive Wall in Software

What happens when you stop protecting engineers from customers?

The Breaker Box Economy

The Breaker Box Economy

Why AI's future belongs to whoever controls the compute grid

The Internet's Forgotten Superpower

The Internet's Forgotten Superpower

How modern web apps forgot to remember

The Experience Upload

The Experience Upload

Surface mastery downloads in seconds. Judgment still takes years.

The Three Infinity Stones That Can Erase Your Company

The Three Infinity Stones That Can Erase Your Company

How Reddit mods, Google rankings, and AI models form a reputation kill chain you don't control

The Server in the Closet

The Server in the Closet

The case for owning your stack

Tools Create Capacity, Workflows Create Value

Tools Create Capacity, Workflows Create Value

The physics of organizational change that everyone ignores.

The Age of Citation

The Age of Citation

AI engines don’t care about rank - they care about corroboration. If you’re not in the synthesis, you’re invisible.

Win the Default, Win the Decade

Win the Default, Win the Decade

The products that shape behavior aren’t the loudest... they’re the ones already chosen.

Mise en Place for AI Teams

Mise en Place for AI Teams

Small tools, sharp edges, fast teams.

AI Belongs in Your Dev Pipeline, Not Your Product

AI Belongs in Your Dev Pipeline, Not Your Product

Why the companies winning with AI aren't the ones with chatbots—they're the ones shipping twice as fast

Why Your Enterprise AI Strategy Is Failing

Why Your Enterprise AI Strategy Is Failing

and it's not about the technology...

The Human Side of AI: Giving People Back Their Time

The Human Side of AI: Giving People Back Their Time

In 1927, Henry Ford made a revolutionary decision to transition his workforce to a five-day workweek. The reason wasn't just altruism - he discovered that...

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