Long-form pieces on learning, cognition, and building systems - written to work an idea through, not to perform having one.
Barbara Oakley's Learning How to Learn, distilled: focused vs. diffuse thinking, chunking, spaced repetition, and why re-reading your notes feels like learning but mostly isn't.
· 6 min read
AI writes most of my code now. What's left for a mid-career engineer: evals, agent architecture, context engineering, AI governance and domain depth.
· 5 min read
A junior's "why are we building this?" saved a week of work. Feynman, first principles, and being willing to look stupid for five minutes.
· 4 min read
Lessons from messy side projects and fresh perspectives: why building what you care about is the fastest way to range, and why that's an edge.
· 3 min read