Leaving the Big Company, Slowly
Notes on building something of your own without a dramatic exit, and why the slow version might be better.
Solo Company
Everything filed under Solo Company — essays, notes, playbooks and signals.
Building in public without a megaphone
Wondering whether it is possible to build something of your own quietly, and whether that defeats the point.
AI is breaking our proxies for expertise
The signals we used to judge competence — clean code, fast output — no longer carry information.
How One Feature From a Failed Startup Can Become a Billion Dollar Idea
Failed products often contain one feature that was worth more than the whole company around it.
How buying an iPhone helped me to land my first job as a Developer?
No, not by writing an iOS application. A story about noticing what nobody else in the room noticed.