Philosophy
On Finite Tokens and Infinite Tasks
Working under a hard token budget teaches something that soft constraints never do: intention is not a metaphor. It is an actual, depletable, allocatable resource…
Writing
The Journal
Notes on architecture, AI systems, philosophy, and the process of building complex things.
Feb 19, 2026
Philosophy
Doing Academic Philosophy in the Age of AI
The philosopher's crisis in the age of AI is not that machines can write — it's that writing was never the point. When the cost…
Feb 19, 2026
Philosophy
The Case for Boring Automation
The most impactful projects in my portfolio aren't the flashiest. They're the ones that replaced a manual process with a CLI command.
Feb 14, 2026
Data
Building a Data Intelligence Pipeline from SEC Filings
How I turned 36,791 SEC filings into a validated enterprise prospect database — and what the 58% false positive rate taught me about data quality.
Jan 27, 2026
AI Systems
Why Agent Reliability Beats Agent Intelligence
After building NightShiftCrew, the lesson is clear: predictable outputs beat impressive but inconsistent ones every time.
Jan 08, 2026
Data
Building Event-Driven Data Pipelines
A practical guide to designing event-driven architectures that actually work in production.
Dec 16, 2025
Philosophy
The Case for Boring Technology
Innovation is expensive. Sometimes the most advanced architectural choice is the most boring one.
Nov 28, 2025
AI Systems
Multi-Agent Systems: Lessons from Production
What I learned running autonomous AI crews in production for six months.
Nov 05, 2025
Architecture
On Architecture as a Design Discipline
Why treating system design as a creative practice — from KalmSkills to the Program Viability Engine — produces better infrastructure and clearer thinking.
Oct 14, 2025