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The Graveyard Behind the Hall of Fame
Behind every product hall of fame lies a much larger product graveyard. It is filled with ideas that once felt promising, late nights that once felt urgent, and prototypes that briefly carried hope before being left behind. Most of this work is never celebrated. Much of it is never even remembered. And yet, none of — read more
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From Skeletons to Living Systems
For decades, software has been built like a skeleton. Deterministic code provided structure, invariants, and load-bearing guarantees. It was precise, rigid, and reliable. This made it powerful for well-defined problems, but brittle when exposed to the ambiguity and variance of the real world. Anything that didn’t fit the structure was treated as an exception. Large — read more
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Builders Don’t Care About Sizings
People who build engineers, founders, and designers in their rawest form tend not to care much about sizings. This is not because sizing is useless, but because it exists in a different mental universe. Sizing is about prediction, abstraction, and reassurance. Building is about motion. Sizing assumes a largely static world. It assumes demand can — read more