system design · AI · technology leadership

The Repository Is All You Need

Tech startups don't need twenty platforms. The codebase is already the product — everything else is a file waiting to live beside it.
10 min read
technology leadership · system design

First Principles Stopped at the Org Chart

Product decisions get first principles. Org structures get copy-pasted. Conway's Law guarantees the gap costs more than most leaders admit.
9 min read
AI · technology leadership · decision-making

Your Meetings Are the New Technical Debt: AI Compounds It

AI doesn't fix broken communication — it accelerates through it. Ignore your decision-making infrastructure while adopting AI and the debt compounds silently.
10 min read
system design · technology leadership · AI

The Monorepo Is Your AI's Connective Tissue

The monorepo was always a bet on shared understanding. In the AI era, that bet pays exponentially — if you evolve what lives in the repo alongside the code.
11 min read
AI · essay · technology leadership

Agentic Coding Is an Amplifier, Not a Foundation

Agentic coding doesn't change what engineering discipline requires. It raises the stakes at which discipline — or its absence — shows up in your results.
12 min read
AI · technology leadership · essay

You Let Yourself Be Replaced

AI replacement is not something done to you. The data shows who actually loses — and it follows those who stop engaging with their own work.
8 min read
AI · technology leadership · system design

Company Knowledge OS: Curation Over Accumulation

Most teams dump everything into a vector database and call it knowledge management. The ones that win curate instead — signal over noise.
12 min read