I’ve wanted a 3D printer for years. There is something about the idea of taking an object that exists only in my imagination, designing it on a computer, pressing a button, and watching it become a physical thing that I find absolutely fascinating. It feels like something out of science fiction. The kind of technology I used to imagine having when I was a kid. But for years, two things kept me away: the price and the amount of fiddling involved. ...
During a train ride, I built a website for our family vacation. I used ChatGPT on my phone. After about an hour, I had a site with a route for each day, photos, maps, riddles for the kids, and ideas for things to do. The users were six people: my family. I had no business plan. I did not want to start a travel company or sell subscriptions. I did not want to make it useful for thousands of other families. I wanted something that fit our trip. ...
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. ...
Something broke in the last two years. The pace of change in AI alone has reached a frequency that no person can track without a system: new models, new frameworks, new paradigms, new competitive moves. Add to that the normal demands of a senior role: strategy documents, stakeholder alignment, product decisions, customer conversations. Add personal projects. Add family. Add the nagging sense that something important happened while you were handling something else. ...
This week I wanted to take a little break from the heavy stuff. It has been a month, the war is still raging, and me, my wife, and our four kids are still at home. I have been doing my best to balance, well, everything. Work, family, stress, routine, and the constant background noise of reality. I needed a bit of an escape. When I was younger, meaning about five minutes ago 😄, I really loved quest games. I also played a bit of Dungeons & Dragons when I was young. With the progress of AI, I kept thinking how cool it would be to use AI as the dungeon master. A quick Google search makes it clear that I am definitely not the only person who had this idea. But still, I have Claude, so why not just build it myself? ...
A Small Number, a Real Moment CV Match has been out in the world for a few months now. I almost didn’t notice when it crossed 100 installations. That number, by itself, is not impressive. It is small. Almost trivial. What made me stop was not the number, but the realization that this thing actually existed in the hands of people I did not know. Real users, not personas. Real decisions, not demos. ...