A reflection on piano practice, parenting, agency, and the slow handoff from structure to independence.
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A weekly archive of essays about product craft, team leadership, and the quieter lessons hidden inside technical work.
A reflection on intelligence, identity, aging, and the compassion we owe ourselves when our abilities begin to fade.
My cheap self disagreed with a financial decision.
PR counts and token spend do not measure contribution well, but early on they can show whether a team is building useful AI-era habits.
What looks like laziness in AI agents is often overload: bounded systems losing track of the right state as tasks and context grow.
Clear, actionable feedback loops help agents improve, and they reveal how much human growth depends on the same pattern.
As AI makes answers cheaper, parenting and education have to protect friction, authorship, judgment, and the slow work of learning how to think.
As AI makes polished knowledge work abundant, human value shifts from producing output to exercising judgment, framing problems, and governing cognition well.