The Accidental Podcast
I automated audio versions of my essays, looked away for four months, and found a 22-episode back catalog. Meet Never the Stack, the podcast I never meant to start.
★tag · 9 essays
#productivity
All essays tagged productivity.
Where the Saved Hour Goes
AI can create a real time dividend for engineers, and history says unallocated capacity gets absorbed before anyone notices. The case for deciding where the saved hour goes.
★The New Abstraction Layer: AI, Agents, and the Leverage Moving Up the Stack
Andrej Karpathy put words to something many engineers are quietly feeling: we have been handed a powerful alien tool with no manual. Where the leverage is actually moving up the software stack — and what that means for the people writing code right now.
The Year Ahead in AI, Enterprise Software, and the Future of Work
From generative AI as a tool to AI as a strategic partner. Reflections on 2025 and what excites me most about 2026.
My Journey to Trusting GenAI With More of My Code
How my workflow evolved from autocomplete magic to spec driven development, and why trusting GenAI with more of my code has changed how I build software.
From Procrastination to Privacy-First Productivity (Part 2)
After building two open-source task managers to battle procrastination, I took it further — secure cloud sync, end-to-end encryption, and now an MCP server that connects your tasks to AI.
The Art of Enough: Why Minimalism Matters in Software Engineering
Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. Exploring Wirth's Law and why real progress might not be about adding more, but mastering the art of enough.
Building My Own Productivity Tools: A Procrastinator's Journey
After testing every productivity app under the sun, I did what any reasonable engineer would do—I built my own. Two open-source, privacy-first task managers to help procrastinators like me get things done.
September Read List
Four September reads all emphasize intentional leadership through simplicity and focus over busyness.