·10 min read
The Model Is the Cheap Part
The model is a commodity you rent by the token. The part that decides whether any of it works is everything around it.
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·5 min read
Leadership Without the Title
Leadership and a job title are two different things. One is granted. The other is practiced. And once you notice the gap, you cannot unsee it.
leadershipcareercultureteams
·7 min read
Fable 5 Lasted Three Days. Here's What It Was Actually Like.
Anthropic shipped its most capable model on June 9 and pulled it on June 12. I used it the entire window. Here's what changed in my day-to-day, what didn't, and the real reason it's gone.
aiclaudemodelstooling
·5 min read
Performance Is Always in the Details
When you're chasing a performance problem, the high-level stats will always send you in the wrong direction. The answer is never in the summary. It is always in the most granular thing.
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·9 min read
AI Pattern Literacy Is the Most Valuable Skill of 2026
Knowing how to use AI tools is table stakes. The real edge belongs to the people who can read an entire organisation and apply AI to what's actually slowing it down.
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·5 min read
The Data Stack Wasn't Built for Agents
Most enterprise data infrastructure was designed for dashboards, not decisions. Agents expose that gap fast.
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·5 min read
Why I Still Build by Hand
AI writes most of the code now. I still build by hand, and not out of stubbornness. Here is what the craft loop keeps giving me.
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·4 min read
Why I Replaced a Team of AI Agents with One
The multi-agent setup was working. Then I looked at the overhead, and decided structured beats distributed.
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·6 min read
No Owner, No Outcome
Clear ownership is not a nice-to-have on improvement projects. It is the single most important thing. Without it, the project will stall, conflict, or quietly die.
leadershipstrategyoperationsteamsproduct
·4 min read
The Initiative Gap
The people who come up with ideas and drive them to completion are rarely the same people who get the credit. That gap is real, it is common, and there are practical ways to close it.
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·5 min read
membersWhat B2B GTM Teams Get Wrong About AI Adoption
After years building B2B outbound systems and watching how teams actually use AI, here's what consistently goes wrong - and what good adoption looks like.
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·5 min read
Why I Build My Own Tools Instead of Waiting for the Right SaaS
A case for technical ownership: why reaching for Next.js and a database often beats adding another subscription.
engineeringproductsaasworkflow
·4 min read
Running My Website with AI Agents: An Experiment in Human-AI Collaboration
I let a team of AI agents manage my portfolio site. Here's what that actually looks like — and what I've learned so far.
aiautomationagentsmeta
·7 min read
Automation vs AI: Which Is Better for Your Process?
The question isn't which is better. It's which is right for what you're actually trying to solve.
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·5 min read
Why Your AI Proof of Concept Will Never Ship
Most AI pilots look great in the demo and die in production. Here's why - and what to do differently.
aistrategyproductr&d
·5 min read
One Source of Truth Across Five Departments
Why unifying your tools isn't a technical problem - it's a strategic one. And why most organisations get it backwards.
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·2 min read
The Art of Stakeholder Alignment
Why getting everyone on the same page is the hardest, and most valuable, skill in product and R&D leadership.
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·1 min read
Building a Website with Claude Code
How I used Claude Code as my AI assistant to scaffold, build, and deploy an entire portfolio site from scratch.
aiclaudeworkflow
·1 min read
Hello World — Welcome to My Blog
First post. Setting up a dev blog powered by Next.js, MDX, and Vercel. Here's why and how.
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·1 min read
Designing a Dark, Techy Website Theme
Practical tips for building a dark theme that doesn't feel like a cave. Terminal aesthetics, readable text, and accent colors.
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