Substack · 2026
The Space Before Building
The step I kept skipping and why it matters more than ever.
The writing
Atelic Action.
Essays about doing things that aren't for anything: running with no race, cooking with no occasion, writing for the writing. It's all a big cosmic joke; these are my footnotes.
Substack · 2026
The Space Between Keystrokes
A Claude Code plugin marketplace for the workflows that fracture your flow.
Medium · 2022
goodbye("Gremlin") // Hello world
On leaving the company I cofounded, and why walking away from a good thing can be the most deliberate decision of all.
Gremlin · 2017
Won't Get Fooled Again
A full disk took the service down on a Friday afternoon. What we built so it couldn't happen the same way twice.
New essays arrive on no particular schedule, which, given the name, is exactly right.
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Tell me about your business.
The writing is the practice thinking out loud. The practice itself gets local businesses found. An email is enough to start.