tag · 10 essays
All essays tagged productivity.
I've used five personal agents to help with the work of everyday life. A restaurant call, a changed appointment, and a playoff-ticket search show what I can hand over, what still needs my decision, and how I know the job is finished.
★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.
★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.
★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.
From generative AI as a tool to AI as a strategic partner. Reflections on 2025 and what excites me most about 2026.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Four September reads all emphasize intentional leadership through simplicity and focus over busyness.