Blog

• February 2026 On Taste, Craft, and Building Things That Last

  Why the best builders care about details nobody asked them to care about.

• November 2025 Managing Across Time Zones

  What I learned coordinating teams across three continents.

• September 2025 The Case for Generalists in a Specialist World

  In a world obsessed with depth, breadth might be the real competitive advantage.

• June 2025 Why Most AI Strategies Fail Before They Start

  The problem is rarely the model — it's everything that happens before the model.

• April 2025 Reinforcement Learning Beyond Games

  RL's most interesting applications aren't in Atari — they're in supply chains and finance.

• January 2025 The LLM Evaluation Problem

  We're building faster than we can measure, and that should concern everyone.

• November 2024 Why Students Will Actually Thrive in the AI World

  Entry-level jobs are changing fast, but that might not be the disaster everyone thinks.

• June 2024 Voice Interfaces Are Underrated

  Text-based AI gets all the hype, but voice is where the real accessibility gains are.

• March 2024 Apache Kafka and the Art of Handling Chaos

  What distributed streaming teaches you about building resilient systems.

• January 2024 AI Adoption Looks Different Everywhere

  What studying AI adoption across countries taught me about context.

• October 2023 On Learning Languages and Learning Systems

  The parallels between acquiring a language and understanding a codebase.

• July 2023 Automation Is Not a Layoff Strategy

  The companies automating to cut headcount seem to be missing the point.

• May 2023 Why North Africa's Tech Scene Deserves Attention

  A growing ecosystem that most of the tech world hasn't noticed yet.

• February 2023 The Myth of the Non-Technical Founder

  You don't need to write code, but you do need to understand systems.