Thinking

Ideas I'm working through.

The Agentic Stack

Mar 12, 2026

Tools, skills, agents, teams — a four-layer model for how agentic systems actually work, and where most teams invest at the wrong altitude.

The Axolotl Principle

Mar 2, 2026

Why the way we heal from failure — in code, in organizations, in life — usually makes us more rigid, and what a weird salamander can teach us about doing it differently.

Boring workflows win

Feb 25, 2026

The most valuable thing AI can do right now isn't creative or flashy. It's the stuff nobody wants to do.