October 2, 2026 · 4 min read
Tend Your Fields
What to do when the robots take over
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Infrastructure of Belonging
On building things that matter, technology for social impact, and scaling yourself before scaling headcount.
September 25, 2026 · 7 min read
Mountains and DOOM!
Driving through the mountains left a lot of time listen to stories
September 18, 2026 · 3 min read
A Week with No Builds
Quiet week in Riggins, Idaho
September 11, 2026 · 6 min read
The Horse Left. The Craft Stayed.
A 189-year-old harness maker, this week’s AI warnings, and the part of building I’m responsible for.
September 4, 2026 · 8 min read
A third of companies stopped buying software
The tool cost went to near zero. The integration cost didn't. Here is what opened it up for us.
August 28, 2026 · 8 min read
One Year of Building
This week marks one year since I shipped my first coding project. And it was backwards.
August 21, 2026 · 9 min read
The Dip after Drop Off
A small change in morning routine could become a process for the company
August 14, 2026 · 3 min read
Upspoken Lives Part 2
It was good to talk about it again.
August 7, 2026 · 4 min read
An Update Twelve Years in the Making
Twelve years late, I finally sent the update. Then I told the whole story on a podcast.
July 31, 2026 · 6 min read
Build Log: My daughter's app takes the next step
The medication checker from May grew up. The most important thing I added is a rule about what it can never tell me.
July 24, 2026 · 7 min read
Build Log - From Presentation to Distribution
I spent eight days building the thing I've been writing about since March.
July 17, 2026 · 6 min read
He built the door I walked through
The first reply came from 2011.
July 10, 2026 · 6 min read
The New Name: Contribution Layer
I sat down to talk myself out of it. The opposite happened.
July 3, 2026 · 7 min read
I thought I lost my principle
Nine weeks ago I promised you a sentence. Yesterday I almost threw it away.
June 26, 2026 · 7 min read
The 49,000 People Under the Breakthrough
Everyone celebrates the breakthrough. Almost nobody remembers the foundation it was standing on.
June 19, 2026 · 6 min read
FIFA gave all 48 teams the same AI. That won't level the field.
Access was never the bottleneck. It never is.
June 12, 2026 · 6 min read
Your Business Runs on Preferences Nobody Wrote Down
Stakeholder variance is the next step in your knowledge gap. Ingestion design will be a much needed skill.
June 5, 2026 · 6 min read
The Knowledge Base Is the Culture
Most AI-in-business stories are replacement stories. We built the opposite. I want to walk through how that actually happened.
May 29, 2026 · 9 min read
Why the sector that needs AWS never got one
Bezos and Cutler did something the nonprofit sector was structurally prevented from doing. Until now.
May 22, 2026 · 8 min read
Knowledge triggered by a decision
Coordination got cheap. Knowledge got portable. Together they change what a small team can do.
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