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Why I went back to the keyboard

I left a CTO chair to be in the code again, at exactly the moment the industry decided code was the part that no longer needed a person.

Election day does not move

I ran digital for three national campaigns. Election day is set by law, and it taught me more about shipping than any methodology has.

Stop the run at the first wrong sentence

The highest-value thing I do with an agent is read its output in real time and stop it the second it says something incongruent. Every trend in tooling pushes the other way.

One round trip per day

Six years leading engineers in Pune and the Philippines taught me to write specifications for someone I could not interrupt. It turns out that is the same skill as directing an agent.