Stop parallelizing your AI agents
The merge tax will eat your 10x speedup
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On the importance of learning by lived example vs. from books and blog posts
Just something I've been thinking about and observing
Five Signals 2026-01-09
Things that cut through the noise this week
Don't give your team pop quizzes
A pattern of shitty culture
The RouteSketch exercise
Building small tools for yourself is fun
Thoughts on Income Sharing Agreements
Must capitalism + education = exploitation?
Bicameralism, Stoicism, Zen
I recently finished (re) reading The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. I suspect this will not be the first of such posts where I react to it. Nothing to do with development here, sorry.
Using a stand-up desk has improved my performance at work
A low-stakes experiment with high upside
You can be right, or you can be effective
History is full of people who were right but who nonetheless didn't accomplish much.
Why is redirect logic always so complex?
and what can we do to address it?