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Latest — 21 Jun 2026

Culture Eats Strategy

I’ve related this story before, but it seems relevant. In 1995, as the Internet was exploding, Microsoft was abuzz internally with efforts to build Internet products. Every product team was thinking about the Internet and what they should do. There were multiple teams building authoring tools, servers, and browsers.

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Room at the bottom

One view of AI coding is that it can help you generate 10x more code or 10x more features. As Dare and others point out, we are starting to see the failings of that idea — for many use cases, we don’t need 10x more code or 10x more features,

Time

As I age, my eyeglass prescription wanders, particularly the astigmatism component. I’ve been trying to adjust to a new prescription as of late, and it has been a killer. I have had to really whack down my screen time, and am still struggling with fatigue, headaches, and some depth

Personal Software

I wrote my first significant piece of software back in 1979. I had done some trivial things before that, but at that time, only cassette tape storage was available to me. Coding, saving, and iterating on software was painful – reading and writing to the cassette was slow and error-prone.

Dealing with dumb government

This is a hopeful post about technology. The internet is an amazing tool to get and share information about government and policy issues — hats off to the state of Washington for its online presence. And the internet is a great way to find and build community. And our AI tools

CEOs and AI

AI is arguably the most transformative and empowering technology of our lifetime. We can use AI to improve our products, broaden our goals, and achieve new heights. Or we can fire a bunch of people. Right now, the industry mostly seems to be firing a bunch of people. Some CEOs

Scrambling Up The Stack

Last week, I wrote about building a dry-humor travel website with Claude Code — how Claude abstracted away all the busywork and let me focus on just what mattered: the conception and the voice. Cristi looked at what I built and said, "this is not software, this is art.

Moving Up The Stack

I spent a little time this week building a dry-humor website: a travel guide for an actual place, but with fictional activities and details. I used Claude Code and Cloudflare Pages, but the technology stack and tooling are completely irrelevant — the heart of the website is the conception, the

Agents, etcetera

We’ve been entertaining family and guests, and the time got away from me, and I didn’t post last week. Apologies! The Agentic Coding Wave Steve Yegge’s observation on Google and AI adoption (via Dare): The TL;DR is that Google engineering appears to have the same Al

Compounding

I think a lot about compounding. Not in the sense of compounding interest, tho that is a great and powerful thing. But the compounding of knowledge. One of my favorite books is Jeff Tweedy’s “How to Write One Song”. He describes how he just keeps plugging away, building an