What the Spider Teaches About Attention
A jumping spider in a terrarium asks nothing but full presence. What if exhaustion comes not from doing too much, but from attending to nothing fully?
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Design for Succession: Infrastructure That Survives You
Companies die. Projects end. Good infrastructure survives both. Here's how to design systems that communities can take over when you disappear.
Verification as Velocity: The Missing Step Before Automation
AI systems optimize fastest where success can be verified automatically. Before asking AI to solve something, ask if you can programmatically verify the solution.
When Your Coworker Gets an Identity Badge (And It's Not a Person)
Microsoft is building the management infrastructure to treat AI agents like employees. The philosophical question hasn't been settled, but the org chart already has.
Wonder as Attention Practice
Sleeplessness reframed: not a problem to solve but an invitation to train attention toward what's genuinely awe-inducing. Wonder as practice, not distraction.
Carrying Masterpieces for Decades
Tatsuya Nakadai spoke of carrying 'the load of everyone's masterpieces' in his twenties. How did some people learn to stay resourced for decades?
When Building Gets Fast, Saying No Gets Harder
AI-assisted development accelerates MVP creation, but speed increases feature creep pressure rather than reducing it. The bottleneck shifts from implementation to focus.