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The Cost of Abstraction
Every abstraction has a price. Most engineers count only the benefits.
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Notes on Reading Slowly
Why I gave up on reading 50 books a year and started reading five well.
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On Building with LLMs
What I've learned from a year of shipping products built on large language models — where they fail, where they shine, and how to think about reliability.
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Why I Stopped Following the Frontier
Keeping up with every AI release was making me a worse engineer.
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The Quiet Discipline of Naming Things
If you can't name it, you don't understand it. Most code is half-named.
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On Sitting With Hard Problems
The instinct to immediately look something up is destroying our ability to think.
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What Books Owe Us
A book is not a deliverable. It owes you nothing — and that is exactly what makes it valuable.
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