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Industry moves fast and most takes are stale by the time you read them. I try to skip the headline panic and get to what it actually means for the people writing the code and shipping the product — not the stock price reaction.

🪐 The Man Who Built Mars One Slice at a Time

🪐 The Man Who Built Mars One Slice at a Time

A founder wants a civilization on Mars. He didn't build it as one project — he built it as ten, each one fundable, sellable, and provable without the other nine. Most engineers can't do that with a single sprint.

Trillion-Dollar Club: A Membership Nobody Should Be Eligible For

Trillion-Dollar Club: A Membership Nobody Should Be Eligible For

A trillion dollars isn’t a personal achievement — it’s a system diagnostic. Here’s what the math, the homelessness data, and a circuit breaker can teach us about a government that forgot its own job.

Part 1: If Engineering Teams Were Governments

Part 1: If Engineering Teams Were Governments

Engineering teams are miniature political systems. Decisions, ownership, and authority mirror the structures of real governments. What would engineering look like under communism, socialism, democracy, or fascism? The parallels are surprisingly accurate—and revealing.

The Many Faces of Power: A Field Guide to Leaders Who Rise, Rule, and Ruin

The Many Faces of Power: A Field Guide to Leaders Who Rise, Rule, and Ruin

Watching today’s world stage made me reflect on the leaders I’ve worked with up close. Not emperors or generals, but executives, managers, and founders. Different scale, same patterns. This is a field guide to leadership archetypes that rise in uncertainty and what they quietly cost us.

🚢 What OceanGate Taught Me About Product Management

🚢 What OceanGate Taught Me About Product Management

The implosion of OceanGate’s sub isn’t just a failure of engineering—it’s a failure of culture. In product development, dissent is a safety feature. Here’s what we can learn from building recklessly and silencing challenge.