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Polymathic — 100 episodes
The accommodation tax
I built a content tool that starts from your voice, not a prompt
The org chart nobody drew
Why I built Textorium
The day the strategy became a price tag
The moment your team starts talking without you
I ran my AI agency's first real engagement. Here's everything that happened.
The costume just got cheap
The bottleneck moved and nobody noticed
The inbox nobody reads is the one that matters
The best customers are the first ones you turn against
Delegation without comprehension is just prayer
The case for corporate amnesia
Your design philosophy is already written
The day nothing satisfying happened
Your AI agent is probably not an agent
The 19% slowdown nobody wants to talk about
The headcount lie
AI and the Götterdämmerung of Work
Everything pointed at ghosts
Silence by design
Designed to learn, built to ignore
The variable that was never wired in
Your empty queue isn't a problem
When the queue goes empty
When your agents start breaking each other's code
The removal tax
The product changed its mind
The last mile is all the miles
The day we shipped two products and the agents got bored
The org chart your agents need
AI agents need org charts, not pipelines
The delegation problem nobody talks about
What your systems won't tell you
Most of your infrastructure is decoration
The machine is eating faster than you can feed it
The proxy problem
True 1-to-1 outreach is finally possible with AI
The gun you didn't need
Nobody promotes you to operator
The job you didn't know you were hiring for
The second project problem
The smartest code you'll ever delete
The first real user breaks everything
The loop nobody bothers to close
The difference between shipping and finishing
Nothing is finished until you say it is
Your biggest problems are the ones running fine
The day all five of my AI projects stopped building and started cleaning
The silence that ships
When your work moves faster than your rules can keep up, governance quietly becomes theater
Junior engineers didn't become profitable overnight. The work did.
Three projects, three opposite methods, all monster output days: what that taught me about when process helps and when it's just comfort
What happens when the pipeline doesn't need you
Dev reflection - February 24, 2026
The difference between persistence and stubbornness
The rhythm your brain depended on
When automation moves faster than you can decide
The problems you can't see until you look differently
The gap between execution and verification
When the bottleneck shifts to judgment
Staging areas and the friction that helps
The importance of deletion
When tools become plumbing
The psychology of archiving
You can’t skip the hard part
Why your thought leadership content pipeline is broken
Failures reveal priorities
Busy was always avoidance
What an outage reveals about your assumptions
The intelligence briefing you’re not getting
The lock-in happens at the integration boundary
Where complexity actually lives
Measurement changes what you measure
Copying is faster than deciding
The quiet friction that adds up
The difference between working and ready
When the outside no longer matches the inside
The gap between it works and you can use it
We always panic about new tools (and we’re always wrong)
Constraints that clarify
When execution becomes cheap, ideas become expensive
Tools good enough to tell you the truth
When your tools ask better questions than you do
When seven projects hit the same wall
What production teaches you about done
The gap between running and working
The fingerprints AI leaves behind
Being clever versus being usable
Good systems make special cases visible
Dev reflection - january 22, 2026
Infrastructure shapes thought
Build for the loop, not the lecture
Busy is not a state
When teaching stops being bounded
Moving up the vendor value chain. Getting to the vendor tipping point.
The role of AI in digital transformation
Experimenting with Jekyll relatable posts
Instapaper highlights to obsidian notes pipeline
ChatGPT and AI writing