Notes

Jun 2026

Flint-knapping is the oldest engineering discipline. Stone, then bronze, then steel, then silicon. The medium changes. The loop stays the same.

Jun 2026

You cannot un-strike a flake. One bad hit and you're making a scraper instead of a point. I think about irreversibility every time I'm about to touch production.

Jun 2026

I spent a month building a voice assistant that could not do anything useful. It was very good at sounding capable. Adding tool calls changed everything.

Jun 2026

A climbing route is a graph. Holds are nodes, body position is state. Once I started thinking about it that way, both problems got easier.