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The MVP Event Horizon: When Your Prototype Goes Critical
Every MVP has an event horizon: the point where people start depending on it. You won't feel yourself cross it - you'll find out when you try to back out.
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The Operator Problem: What Startups Face After the MVP
Every tutorial teaches you to get started. Almost none teach you what to do once your startup depends on what you built - like the day a hidden Twilio limit silently cut off our busiest support rep.
The Strangler Fig Pattern: Rebuild Everything, without losing your mind
When your prototype becomes the product your business depends on, you can't just start over. Here's how the Strangler Fig pattern let us rebuild safely.
Cognitive Debt and the Cost of Staying Wrong
Being wrong is unavoidable. The real damage comes from allowing a bad assumption to shape everything you build on top of it.
You are not your user. Except when you are.
"You are not your user" is fundamentally good advice. It's also occasionally wrong, but in a very useful way.
Dunning-Kruger for Vibe Coders
The first thing AI teaches you about coding is confidence. The second is why that's a problem. Let's talk about the Dunning-Kruger effect.
Lessons I Learned the Hard Way
Your brain rewires itself based on what you practice. If you stop practicing hard things, you slowly lose the ability to do them.
Learn to Love the Rebuild
Refactoring isn't a necessary evil -- it is the job. Why the best product teams rebuild constantly, at every scale.
Just Enough Is an Ongoing Practice
Stable products still need maintenance. Defaults and shiny features quietly tax systems over time, and efficiency is a sign of craftsmanship, not penny-pinching.
My 2026 Developer Tech Stack
The tools I use as CTO and product engineer at a Y Combinator-backed startup in 2026.
The Zeroth Loop: They Don't Quit, They Forget
Most habits don't fall apart because people quit. They fall apart because they aren't sticky.
Science-Backed Secrets of Long, Happy Lives
A guide to the habits of high longevity people.
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