The notebook
Writing
Essays on product, policy, and the seams in between. New pieces land here first — roughly one a month, occasionally from a dock.
Latest · Essays
We need AI output budgets
A colleague joked that everyone should get a daily word limit for what they send their coworkers. The joke lands because we've stopped owning what we share.
The AI regulation backlash we're not planning for
When governments finally move to regulate AI, a lot of people won't experience it as regulating a product. They'll experience it as losing family.
The skunk at the garden party
How do you ship faster without crushing the people who have to hold the line on quality?
We built a working product prototype in ~8 hours. That's the story of 2025.
A clickable prototype in a day changes what a spec is, and how fast a team can kill its own bad ideas.