Writing

I write to de-risk decisions. If a post reads sharp, it’s aimed at systems, not people.

Reading notes and thought leadership

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Selected writings (recent):

• From $100M Offers to AI Misfires: Notes on Value, Hype, and Human Blind Spots
• Context Rot, Corporate Feudalism, and the Art of Weakening Belief Edges
• The Illusion of Thinking: LLM Cosplay and the Coming AI Class War

Notes on management & technology

My research and reading notes on management & technology are published here.

Selected writings:

• You’re a Tech Lead. What now? (2022)
• Levels of Technical Leadership (2022)
• Measuring errors vs. exceptions in Go and C++ (2018, 2020)
• The Go low-level calling convention on x86-64 (2018)

Academic publications

Previously I was active in computer science research. You can find my publication record here.

Selected articles:

• CockroachDB Serverless: Sub-second scaling from zero with multi-region cluster virtualization (2025)
• AM3: Towards a hardware Unix accelerator for many-cores (2015)
• Apple-CORE: harnessing general-purpose many-cores with hardware concurrency management (2012)

Themes

• Ahead of the hype: critical dives into AI & LLM news.
• Founder operating rhythms: decision cadence, thin slices, guardrails.
• Quiet leadership: durable org growth; upskilling ICs/managers; communication under load.
• EU⇄US bridges: systems, first hires, cultural edges.