The Blog

"I finished" is the most dangerous lie in tech. In software, "Done" is a spectrum. Are you shipping a Hope-Driven Deliverable or reaching the true peak of Triple D?

Right now, the software industry is about to step on the same rake. Again. We’ve spent 150 years assuming that swapping one component for a faster one would magically fix the economy.

Technology doesn't cause an explosion of productivity by itself. Unlocking the value requires a total system reboot.

Why we measure everything and why it's not always a good thing.

Why normalization is not always the answer and when denormalization makes sense.

After dismantling the myth of originality for four episodes, it’s time for the punchline: creativity isn’t under threat. Our ability to distinguish a vision from its imitation is.

We've turned "frictionless" into a religion. But a system with zero resistance is just a system waiting to slide off a cliff. Maybe we've accidentally engineered our own stupidity.

When the comedy group Axis of Awesome performs their famous "4 Chords" medley, the audience usually goes through two distinct phases.

We were promised a 15-hour workweek and a paradise of leisure. Instead, we got "AI Brain Fry" and an infinite mountain of automated slop to verify. Here’s why making things efficient is the worst thing to happen to your free time since the invention of the CC button.

If we strip away the romantic fluff, art history is nothing more than the evolution of computer graphics—just stretched over thousands of years because the hardware was garbage.