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Story arcs, in progress.
Trayd, In Public
“The first ten paying contractors. The week the calls came in.”
Becoming a Studio
“On pricing the work — what I charge, what I refuse, why.”
The Reading List
“Borges, AI, and the unsettling math of the Library of Babel.”
Latest dispatches.
Field note: May
Smaller weeks, longer essays, and the meeting I should have skipped.
The cost of being available
I once calculated, in a fit of late-night rigor, that I had been on call — in some informal sense — for roughly 4,200 of the previous 4,380 days. The number was wrong only in that it was too low.
The half-life of a good tool
Three categories of tool exist in the working life of a professional: the tool you'll throw out in eighteen months, the tool you'll throw out in five years, and the tool that will, with mild adjustments, outlive you. Almost everyone confuses category one for category three.
Latency is a worldview
Network engineering as a metaphor for how good thinkers structure their lives. Async, batched, queued, cached — and the one bad path that ruins all of them.
By day, I ship production software.
Sage Ideas is the writing wing of a one-person studio that builds software for people who don't have time for software. The thing is where I think out loud. The studio is where the code goes live.
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