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How Skateboarding Taught Me to Think Creatively: A Love Letter
Three lessons from a childhood obsession that rewired how I see the world and make things today
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On Apple's Illusion of Thinking & Why We're Obsessed with Disproving Intelligence
My thoughts on the recent Apple research paper about large reasoning models failing at high-complexity tasks and what it says about humans, more than AI
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On Cognitive Dissonance and Conflicting Truths
Why we feel the need to resolve conflict between two beliefs in our minds, and how we might find a third way
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May 2025

What I'm Learning about Building Great Products after 10 Years as a PM
A compilation of my in-progress learnings about what it takes to build great products
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Prompting Is Becoming Interface Design
Why the future of AI products is less about clever inputs and more about designing flows that shape intent and structure model behavior
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We're Still Bending Tubes in AI
Why the application layer is lagging and how beauty emerges from experimentation
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April 2025

March 2025

February 2025

On Committing to Consistency: What My Sister Taught Me about Self-Belief
Lessons on persistence, self-belief, and the little steps that lead to mastery
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Reimagining Software Part 3: Why We Should Embrace Agents
The final part of a 3 part essay digging into how I imagine software (e.g. the application layer) evolves with LLMs.
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Reimagining Software Part 2: Why Software Should Feel More Like Playing Video Games
A 3 part essay digging into how I imagine software (e.g. the application layer) evolves with LLMs.
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January 2025

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