Tag: Musings

All the posts with the tag "Musings".

• The case for making your life harder (on purpose)

  Published: 2 Nov, 2025 |  at  07:50 AM

  Why boycotts, friction, and inconvenience might be the best things for our mental health and attention spans in an age of instant gratification.

• AI agents are having their jQuery moment

  Published: 31 Oct, 2025 |  at  07:33 AM

  Building AI agents in 2025 feels exactly like the browser wars - fragmented, painful integrations everywhere. MCP might be the jQuery moment we need.

• Why your dev work feels boring (and how to fix it)

  Published: 28 Oct, 2025 |  at  08:00 AM

  Software development gets boring when you just check boxes. Learn how chasing everyday technical challenges creates the tension that makes dev work exciting again.

• Tech chaos roundup: Silicon Valley goes full wild west July 2025

  Published: 2 Aug, 2025 |  at  12:07 AM

  Google dismantled Windsurf for $2.4B, and AI cheating tools are now VC-funded. Silicon Valley officially became the Wild West in July 2025

• Your brain on AI - MIT study update

  Published: 8 Jul, 2025 |  at  07:50 AM

  To AI or Not to AI - That's the Real Question

• Your brain on AI—the cognitive skill you're silently sacrificing

  Updated: 8 Jul, 2025 |  at  06:35 AM

  Don't outsource the most valuable skill you have.

• Tech chaos and wild stories from June 2025

  Published: 1 Jul, 2025 |  at  07:07 AM

  From $29B Meta fundraising to mind-reading robots, 42 insane tech moments from June that made my SEO experiment look adorably quaint.

• Why AI tools are making software engineers less capable

  Updated: 28 Jun, 2025 |  at  08:35 AM

  A developer's candid take on AI tools in software engineering—balancing productivity gains with the critical thinking skills that make engineers truly valuable in tech.

• AI is the death of outbound (and here's what replaces it)

  Published: 29 May, 2025 |  at  06:50 AM

  AI was supposed to supercharge outbound. Instead, it's killing it. Here's why hyper-personalization creates spam fatigue & what replaces it.

• Seeing through my little one's eyes

  Published: 15 Apr, 2025 |  at  05:30 PM

  A father reflects on how his toddler's wonder-filled exploration reveals life's overlooked details.

• Side project purgatory

  Published: 12 Apr, 2025 |  at  08:50 AM

  Chasing new coding projects while the almost-finished ones gather digital dust, despite knowing they deserve to ship.