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I loved Star Trek as a child. The ships and the strange worlds were the obvious draw, along with the sense that the universe was enormous and mostly unexplored. What stayed with me, though, was something I couldn’t have put into words back then. Star Trek assumed that humanity would grow up. In its future we hadn’t only invented warp drive. We had stopped organizing our lives around fighting each other and pointed the ambition of an entire civilization outward. ...

I walked past Can’t Hurt Me in stores for years. David Goggins on the cover, staring at me. I never picked it up. I was done with self-help. Done with theories about how to live. Done with monks on mountaintops and founders who wake up at 5am and need you to know about it. Then a few months ago I bought it. I still don’t know why. Something about it got me that time. ...

Introduction For years, I wanted a place to share my thoughts on product management, operations, AI, software development, and the small “weekend projects” I build from time to time. I always wanted to, but never actually did. Why? No good reason. At first, I tried Twitter. Too short, not a good fit for full ideas. Then I moved to LinkedIn — better, but quickly chaotic. Posts disappear into the feed, long-form posts feel clumsy, and it’s hard to revisit or organize old ideas. The more I wrote, the more I felt the need for a home, a place where my work, thoughts, and experiments could live together. ...