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2026

Jan 31

What Bespoke Shoes Can Teach Us About AI

I have always had a weakness for leather shoes and well tailored clothes. Not in a loud or logo driven way, but in the quiet details. The weight of good leather. The way a shoe creases after a few wears. The balance between structure and softness in something made to last. There is a particular satisfaction that comes from owning things that were clearly made with care by someone who knew exactly …

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2025

Oct 28

Treat Your Engineers As Creatives

My path from music production to software engineering taught me a simple truth: engineering is a creative practice under constraint, imagination disciplined by structure and logic. My best work emerges when curiosity, judgement, and taste have room to operate. Treating engineers like checklist-driven code machines buys predictability at the cost of invention. Every elegant interface, resilient …

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