A take on the mythical 10x engineer, except that they aren’t a myth.

Asking questions and waiting for a response is not the most productive way of doing things.

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

A funeral for a lighthouse, a sermon in fungus, our vanishing digital media, and the arrow of time.

What gets lost when everything is effortless?

Lessons learned from 14 years of engineering at Google, focusing on what truly matters beyond just writing great code.

It does not matter if AI companies will not be able to get their money back and the stock market will crash.

In a world where ideas are cheap and software is cheaper, what truly matters now?

Thinking is the foundation of everything we do and, for most of us that foundation has many cracks.

Sometimes our role in life isn’t to judge something—it is to figure out how to fall in love with it.

The year when AI stopped feeling like just a tool and started to feel more like a mirror.

They say the shape of things only becomes legible at a distance.

Design as a search, not a pipeline. How tools carry opinions, and how those opinions shape what feels “reasonable” to attempt.

Is it simply impossible to effectively tell a story at scale if you don’t have massive resources?

Good titles permit readers to quickly estimate the relative value of articles, essays, videos, etc. Everybody wins when titles are accurate.

Recommendations about candidate selection based on thousands of assessments and a somewhat obsessive interest in the topic.

“I might be going insane because half of what I read now sounds like ChatGPT.”

One of the tensions at the heart of capitalism: trying to do the “right thing” is disadvantageous.

It’s incredibly valuable to make a design system available to all–no matter what the bean-counters say.

Huge swathes of human knowledge are missing from the internet. By definition, generative AI is shockingly ignorant too.