Convenience Is the Product
From wedding seating software to AI-built applications, the software stack keeps moving responsibility upward. The enduring product is convenience.
Latest field notes
Recent Notes
Small observations from the workbench.
Life Is Long Enough
Jeff Dean helped build the systems beneath Google. His calendar still made room for yoga, football, and a 30-minute meeting with an intern.
Antarctica Is the Largest Desert
A fifth-standard boy corrected my geography. Another family used one plain AI question to find an opportunity for their son's book.
Companies & OSS
Kailash Nadh, Zerodha, Cloudflare, and Shopify show the discipline behind a costly choice: inherit, extend, fork, or build a production system from scratch.
Companies & Languages
Jane Street, Ericsson, NeXT, Google, Meta, Roblox, and Apple show when a company can justify years of investment in a programming language.