Notes
Short pieces, written while the thinking is still moving. Revised without apology.
Recent
Systems
Naming is architecture
If two people read a token name differently, the system already has a bug.
AI
The prototype is the question
Building the thing is how you find out what you were actually asking.
Craft
Clarity is not simplicity
Simple removes. Clear arranges. Only one of them is honest about complexity.
Practice
Hold the structure loosely
A model you cannot revise is a belief wearing a diagram.
Teams
Ambiguity has an owner
Unclaimed uncertainty does not stay still — it redistributes as everyone else's anxiety.
Craft
Draw the edges first
You learn more from where a map stops than from what it fills in.