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not just date.
Follow the themes that run through the archive: engineering, AI, culture, leadership, and the practice of building.
Connected pieces
A few places to begin.
My First Comic Book
From waiting for He-Man on Doordarshan to discovering Spider-Man in a comic-book shop.
Culture · Personal Development · ComicsSomebody Chose the Butterflies
A field study of how two AI companies engineered a feeling, and what a builder can learn from it.
Artificial Intelligence · Design · EngineeringMy Claude Code Origin Story
The inside story of Claude Code, and how a tool I kept at a distance became the one I now find hard to work without.
Developer Tools · Claude Code · Artificial IntelligenceThe Day a Rocket Company Rang a Bell
How a company that nearly died on a Pacific atoll became the largest IPO in history, and what it now wants to build above our heads.
Technology · Artificial Intelligence · EngineeringHow Should Your Product Feel?
A practical worksheet for turning a handful of honest adjectives into coherent decisions across voice, visuals, motion, naming, and product behaviour.
Design · Engineering · CultureFrom Tokens to Chips
A software engineer's on-ramp to Reiner Pope's Dwarkesh lectures and the compute stack behind AI coding tools.
Artificial Intelligence · Software Engineering · Engineering