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.
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.
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.
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.
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.