We Stopped Asking Where the Frogs Went
I read an article about people moving to a city and couldn't stop thinking about the people who left. Turns out ecology has a name for that — and once I started looking, the pattern showed up everywhere.
A Few Thoughts
We're all Qeng Ho Now: What a 1999 Sci-Fi Novel Gets Right About the AI Shift in Software Engineering
How Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky predicted the exact shape of the problems software engineers face in the age of AI—and what a civilization of interstellar traders can teach us about building for a future we can't predict.
The Early Bird and the Worms
Biology offers one of my most useful mental models for software. Early choices feed momentum, but they also shape what a system can become.
Transitioning Seasons in The Great Life Cycle
Leaving VMware after the Broadcom acquisition and reflecting on what the Clarity team meant to me.
Hidden In Plain Sight
What To-Shin Do means to me — mastery as cycles, basics as foundation, and the mountain you never summit.
Accepting The Good Life
Losing a four-legged family member and what it means to accept the hard parts of a good life.
Learning and Punctuated Equilibrium
Stagnation after a long period of growth and where to go.
Just One Step
The first step is the hardest step.