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Writing on building

Honest takes on product, AI, engineering, and what it’s actually like to build software and a network at the same time.

AI · Product
Why I built a question-a-day app instead of another feed

Every social network tries to maximize time on platform. Similar Thinking was designed around the opposite constraint. A daily question, a single answer, and a place to review what your friends also think.

Jul 15, 2026
Building in public
The network is the product

Software is the excuse. What I actually want to build is a place where the right people find each other at the right time.

Jun 28, 2026
Engineering
Shipping fast without burning down the foundation

How I think about speed vs. quality trade-offs after twenty years of writing software for everything from drivers to web apps.

Jun 10, 2026
AI
LLMs as a collaborator, not a replacement

A year into daily AI-assisted development — what actually changed, what stayed the same, and where it still falls flat.

May 22, 2026
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