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11 documents

Situated-Cost Alignment

An idea doesn't become a business because it's good, but when it removes more cost than it adds for each actor who has to say yes. A materialist approach to building a business.

Letting Go in Our Relationship to Production

On what we can inhabit in our effort, and what must remain exposed to reality when we produce for others.

My Why, My How, My What

A personal note on what drives my work, how I like to build, and the concrete forms through which my values can take shape.

How AI Is Changing Our Relationship to Work in Software Engineering

On the excitement of AI-assisted coding, the disappearance of friction, and the need to learn how to tame our new tools.

Letting Go in Our Relationship with Others

On self-assertion, other people’s judgment, and what we cannot control in how we are received.

AI Makes It Absurd to Keep Engineers Away from Reality

When the cost of producing code falls, value shifts toward understanding the real problem.

Letting Go Does Not Mean Stopping Acting

A practical definition of letting go: act on the conditions, then accept the uncertainty of adaptation.

Attention Capital

Why modern inequality is also about the ability to protect one’s time, attention, and environment.

Do Humans Change, or Do They Adapt?

A simple thesis: human beings do not directly remake themselves; they are transformed mainly through adaptation to their conditions of life.

The Brain Needs Recovery Too

What sport can teach us about effort, recovery, and intellectual work.

The Time Ideas Need

On maturation, attention, and what speed cannot replace.