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Aug 26, 2026

Six different pairs of shoes lined up under a wooden locker-room bench, all pointing the same way: scuffed high-tops, new white sneakers with the tag still on, work boots, small green-strap kids' trainers, polished black dress shoes, and worn cream running shoes.

Meet Them Where They Are

A senior engineer I helped leave for business school came back years later to interview me about leadership. What a team of ten or more teaches you about meeting people where they actually are.

Aug 13, 2026

Wooden artist's mannequins in a chain of marionettes: a large kneeling figure holds the strings of a smaller one, which holds the strings of a smaller one still, down to a tiny figure drawing a line across a sheet of paper on the floor.

What Open Weights Mean - The Three Weeks That Followed Kimi K3

Kimi K3's weights landed right on schedule - into a federal distillation accusation, an industry-wide open letter, and the first autonomous AI cyberattack. Part 3 of the K3 series reads the aftermath.

Jul 24, 2026

Four cartoon islands of the same shape on deep teal water: one lush and fully built out with a cottage, fountain, and lamp posts; one frozen mid-construction with exposed wooden framing; one overgrown with tangled vines; one small and plain but complete.

One Prompt, Four Models - Which AI Is the Better Game Developer?

I gave the same game-dev prompt to Kimi K3, GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude Sonnet 5, and Claude Fable 5 - same machine, same rules, native harnesses - then played what came back. Part 2 of the Kimi K3 series.

Jul 22, 2026

A crowd in black silhouette holds up dozens of glowing phones, each screen showing the launch they are all filming: a chrome rocket marked with a black K climbing into a starry night sky on a pillar of white flame above billowing amber smoke.

The Moonshot Moment - Kimi K3's launch week

Kimi K3 launched last week to a flood of hot takes and hyperbole. What the benchmarks, the token economics, and a few identity probes actually say about the newest open-weight moment - part 1 of a three-part series.

Jul 6, 2026

An open wooden collector's case lined with green velvet, holding an abacus, a slide rule, and a vintage pocket calculator in fitted recesses, beside a smooth uncut section where a fourth instrument would go.

The Calculator Replaced the Slide Rule - Math Didn't Die

In 1972 the HP-35 made the slide rule obsolete almost overnight, but math didn't die. AI is doing the same thing to software engineering, and the fundamentals are getting more valuable, not less.