Insights
Proof of thinking.
Short, technical, strategic. We publish only when the result deserves a reader.
Essay6 min
On calm engineering.
Velocity is not the only virtue. Patience, restraint, and reversibility produce systems that age well.
March 2026Read
Field note8 min
Agents are systems, not features.
Treat agents the way you treat a database — with versioning, observability, and contracts. Anything else is theatre.
February 2026Read
Essay5 min
Design systems are software.
If your design system has a release process, semantic versioning, and a changelog, it is software. Treat it that way.
January 2026Read
Essay7 min
Infrastructure as narrative.
What an architecture diagram tells you about an organization is usually more revealing than the diagram itself.
November 2025Read
Field note4 min
What we stopped doing in 2025.
A short list of practices we abandoned, and what replaced them. Mostly about meetings and metrics.
October 2025Read
Research9 min
Retrieval is an interface problem.
The hardest part of retrieval is not vectors — it is what you choose to show, when, and to whom.
August 2025Read