Notes from a working life.
Because I'm not a writer if I don't write.
2026
- May 5 · Bears · 7 minCaleb Williams has broken my brainI watched the highlights again, which was a mistake. Now I am a rational adult making irrational football noises in May.
- Apr 14 · Home · 6 minWhy we have 3 dogsAt some point a household stops having pets and starts operating a small, emotionally manipulative nonprofit.
- Mar 17 · Work style · 6 minThe usefulness of being mildly annoyingThe person asking where the number came from is rarely the most beloved person in the meeting. They are often the reason the meeting survives contact with reality.
- Mar 2 · AI & labor · 18 minThe levee brokeBlock eliminated four thousand jobs on a Thursday. The market added twenty-two percent. The gap between those two things is the story.
- Feb 10 · AI & labor · 7 minThe Friday morning problemAI productivity stories usually end when the stock pops. The human story starts the next morning.
- Jan 6 · AI · 7 minAgainst the slop machineAI can make a small team faster. It can also turn everyone into an unpaid editor for a very confident intern who never sleeps.
2025
- Nov 18 · Chicago · 5 minIn Chicago I trustChicago is good at reminding you that the world is made of actual people doing actual things in weather that has opinions.
- Oct 7 · Work · 6 minWhy I still like workThis is a slightly embarrassing confession in the age of burnout discourse, but I still think good work can be beautiful.
- Aug 26 · Marketing · 6 minThe budget was almost zero, which clarified the mindScarcity is a terrible operating model. It is also a ruthless editor.
- Jul 15 · Personal · 5 minA small note on ambitionI want to build serious things with serious people and still be able to look my dogs in the eye at the end of the day.
- Jun 3 · Analytics · 6 minForms are where truth goes to dieEvery attribution argument eventually crawls back to a hidden field nobody tested.
- Apr 22 · Leadership · 6 minThe meeting after the meetingEvery company has the official meeting and the smaller, stranger one where people say what they meant.
- Mar 11 · Building · 7 minBuilding things I was not qualified to buildMost of my technical confidence came after the moment it would have been useful.
- Jan 28 · RevOps · 6 minThe day I became a spreadsheet guyNobody dreams of becoming the person with strong opinions about lifecycle definitions. Then one day the business needs one, and there you are.
2024
- Dec 17 · Career · 6 minWhat I mean by serious workSerious work is rarely the loudest work. A lot of it looks like staying with the problem after the impressive sentence has left the room.
- Nov 12 · GTM systems · 7 minThe thing under the thingI have a bad habit of looking for the plumbing. It has ruined a lot of perfectly nice dashboards for me.