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Infrastructure, Product, and Value: Three Distinct Things You Keep Treating as One

August 17, 2026

Most businesses don't fail from building their product poorly; they fail from hiding inside infrastructure to avoid market rejection. Customers pay for value, tolerate the product, and never once think about your infrastructure.

Startups Product Infrastructure

Venture Capital will kill you if you are not ready

August 10, 2026

I have built three startups raising capital in all of them, but funnily enough I did not understand what Venture Capital really meant until the last one.

Venture Capital Startups Fundraising

A native macOS menu bar companion for Beads

August 5, 2026

We keep trying to manage human projects while autonomous agents have already seized control of the factory.

AI Engineering Build in Public

Validation for People Who Hate Talking to People

May 22, 2026

Running landing pages, launching online surveys, and running ads isn't validation, it's just the elaborate coping mechanism of an introverted, highly technical founder designed to avoid the single most painful thing in business: talking to human beings.

Startups Product-Market Fit Mental Health

The Illusion of Replacing Developers with AI

May 20, 2026

Why an engineering team still makes sense when AI can write half the code, and the real cost of surviving complexity.

Engineering Startups Infraestructura
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