Notes from the Studio
Essays.
Not blog posts. A blog answers a search query; an essay changes how someone thinks. These are written slowly, argued honestly, and meant to still be worth reading in five years.
AI & Building
How these systems are actually planned, instructed, trusted, and maintained.
Why Most AI Projects Fail Before They're Built
A project fails in the quiet weeks before anyone opens an editor. Here is what those weeks should contain.
8 min readPrompt Architecture Is a Design Discipline
The instructions you give a system are structure, not styling. Treating them as design changes everything downstream.
8 min readAI Loyalty
Technology evolves. Wisdom compounds. The businesses that understand the difference usually move faster over the long run.
7 min readDesigning AI Systems People Actually Trust
People do not trust systems that are usually right. They trust systems that are predictable about being wrong.
7 min readAI Is Becoming Infrastructure, Not Software
Software is chosen. Infrastructure is assumed. The transition between the two is where the real decisions live.
7 min readBuilding AI Products That Age Gracefully
The question is not whether your product will still run in five years. It is whether anyone will still want to open it.
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Philosophy of Building
The convictions underneath the work — pace, craft, restraint, and finishing.
The Calm Company
The best work I have been part of happened in quiet rooms, on ordinary Tuesdays, at a pace that would have looked unimpressive from outside.
7 min readWhy Good Software Feels Invisible
Design that succeeds disappears into the task. This makes it very difficult to take credit for, and very worth doing.
7 min readTechnology Changes Quickly. Good Principles Don't.
The half-life of a tool is a few years. The half-life of a principle is a working lifetime. Choose what to memorize accordingly.
7 min readWhy We Prototype Ideas Before Code
A prototype is not an early version of the product. It is an instrument for finding out what you actually believe.
7 min readThe Difference Between Shipping and Finishing
Everything can be shipped. Only some of it is ever finished. The gap between the two is where reputations are made.
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