The world completely changed on November 24, 2025 with the release of Claude Opus 4.5, specifically when used in Claude Code. Not in some fun imagine-the-future way, but in an immediate, jaw-dropping way. I didn't use Claude Code until late December 2025, but when I did it felt like magic. Developers became 10x faster and 10x more people could now be developers. The knowledge required to produce software is no longer programming and reading docs. It's been reduced to clearly articulating what...

The world completely changed on November 24, 2025 with the release of Claude Opus 4.5, specifically when used in Claude Code. Not in some fun imagine-the-future way, but in an immediate, jaw-dropping way. I didn't use Claude Code until late December 2025, but when I did it felt like magic. Developers became 10x faster and 10x more people could now be developers. The knowledge required to produce software is no longer programming and reading docs. It's been reduced to clearly articulating what...

Judgment feels like an attack to people who never judge themselves. We all assess people. What they're good at. What they're not. But when a negative assessment is said out loud, some find it offensive. But a negative assessment isn't necessarily an insult. It's an opinion. We exist on countless spectrums - skill, ability, achievement. We're bound to rank low on some. Knowing where you stand is useful. The ideal: desire to hear other's judgments about you. Treat their opinions as data. If som...

Judgment feels like an attack to people who never judge themselves. We all assess people. What they're good at. What they're not. But when a negative assessment is said out loud, some find it offensive. But a negative assessment isn't necessarily an insult. It's an opinion. We exist on countless spectrums - skill, ability, achievement. We're bound to rank low on some. Knowing where you stand is useful. The ideal: desire to hear other's judgments about you. Treat their opinions as data. If som...

Starting in February, I'll be attending Network School for four months. It's a startup city in Malaysia with a few hundred founders building and living together. Some friends and family find this crazy. Why leave a job that's been good to you, a city you love, friends you enjoy? Why go somewhere you know nobody with no guaranteed income? Because I want to be around builder energy and I want uncertainty. Certainty is a mirage. It's the belief that because something happened before, it will con...

Starting in February, I'll be attending Network School for four months. It's a startup city in Malaysia with a few hundred founders building and living together. Some friends and family find this crazy. Why leave a job that's been good to you, a city you love, friends you enjoy? Why go somewhere you know nobody with no guaranteed income? Because I want to be around builder energy and I want uncertainty. Certainty is a mirage. It's the belief that because something happened before, it will con...

Recently I've been doing a lot of work in Figma, an application for designing websites and apps before coding them. Through this work, I've developed what I call "the eyes to see" for design. Where I once saw an app as a cohesive whole, I now see the component parts. The best way to develop the eyes to see is to create something yourself. Through making things, you develop opinions on how things are done versus just how they are. Build a few tables and you'll start noticing design choices eve...

Recently I've been doing a lot of work in Figma, an application for designing websites and apps before coding them. Through this work, I've developed what I call "the eyes to see" for design. Where I once saw an app as a cohesive whole, I now see the component parts. The best way to develop the eyes to see is to create something yourself. Through making things, you develop opinions on how things are done versus just how they are. Build a few tables and you'll start noticing design choices eve...

"The written word endures, the spoken word disappears; that is why writing is closer to the truth than speaking." —Neal Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death Written text gets reviewed before being shared. Important pieces go through editors. Claims can be checked, compared against other sources, and referenced. The great texts of history get revisited again and again, the bad ones fade. Speech has its own strengths: immediacy, emotion, meaning in articulation that is lost in text. But spoken w...

"The written word endures, the spoken word disappears; that is why writing is closer to the truth than speaking." —Neal Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death Written text gets reviewed before being shared. Important pieces go through editors. Claims can be checked, compared against other sources, and referenced. The great texts of history get revisited again and again, the bad ones fade. Speech has its own strengths: immediacy, emotion, meaning in articulation that is lost in text. But spoken w...