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Every essay

41 essays since 8 December 2025, newest first.

Every essay

September 2026

  1. Standard Gauge6 min
  2. Slow Down, Says the Car in Front7 min
  3. Name the Hour6 min
  4. Rent the Frontier, Own the Workhorse6 min
  5. What We Meant by Done6 min

August 2026

  1. The Moat Was the Paperwork6 min
  2. MCP Goes Stateless: What’s Actually in the 2026-07-28 SpecField notes · 4 min
  3. A Yes That Has Been Somewhere5 min

July 2026

  1. Conway’s Law in Reverse5 min
  2. The Pin Factory and the Poem6 min
  3. The First Software That Can Sell Out5 min
  4. Worth Doing Badly5 min

May 2026

  1. The Field Manual for Agentic Engineering6 min

April 2026

  1. Five Notes from the Sequoia Stage6 min
  2. Why Faster AI Doesn’t Make Faster Companies5 min
  3. The Great InversionAI strategy · 5 min
  4. Building for the Wrong ModelAI strategy · 6 min
  5. Trust, But VerifyCraft · 6 min
  6. Leeloo Dallas, MemorypassField notes · 4 min
  7. Say What You MeanCraft · 6 min
  8. The Taste GapCraft · 8 min
  9. Think in Pieces7 min
  10. The Spec Is the Product7 min
  11. The New ManagementCraft · 6 min

March 2026

  1. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the K-Shaped EconomyField notes · 4 min
  2. It Is Time to Boil the Ocean7 min
  3. The Kitchen Is Open7 min

February 2026

  1. I Know Kung Fu: Loading Only What the Mission Needs5 min
  2. The $690B Question Wall Street Can’t Answer6 min
  3. Clawdbought: How OpenAI Acquired the Biggest Open-Source AgentHot take · 4 min
  4. When Intelligence Organizes Itself4 min
  5. 147,000 GitHub Stars in Two Weeks. Mac Mini Shortages. A 24% Stock Surge. The Market Just Told You Something.4 min

January 2026

  1. Claude Has Character. Your AI Has a Script.7 min
  2. Anthropic Is Quietly Winning the AI Race5 min
  3. Your IDE is a Dead Pixel5 min
  4. The Ancient Art of Knowing LessArchitecture · 5 min
  5. The Memento ProblemCraft · 6 min
  6. The Bookshelf in the Black Hole5 min

December 2025

  1. The Genius Who Can’t Say ‘I Don’t Know’5 min
  2. Learning FORTRANField notes · 4 min
  3. MCP and the Token TaxAI strategy · 3 min