Everything, organized by how you read.
The Model Is the Easy Part
Why the Kasparov experiment, not the model leaderboard, is the right way to think about AI at work.
The Release Type We Forgot
A beta-tag standoff that turned out to be about institutional memory, not policy.
Maintenance Isn't a Demotion
Splitting innovation from upkeep is clean on a whiteboard and quietly corrosive on a team.
The Question Before the Pixels
The most useful question in a crit is whether the work should exist at all.
Tone Is a Material
A leader's tone isn't a soft skill on top of the work. It's the material a team's resilience is built from.
The Bar Doesn't Move
Why a flooded candidate market is exactly when you hold the hiring bar highest.
When the Save Indicator Is Doing Two Jobs
A save indicator that tried to show two different states at once, and the rule it broke.
Why We Didn't Roll Back
A launch-day bug, and why the hotfix was the conservative call, not the brave one.
Org Follows Strategy
When a roadmap creates dread, the ambition usually isn't the problem. The missing resource conversation is.
Comma, Not a Bow
Two small moves that decide whether crit feedback actually changes the work.
Handshake, Not Handoff
A four-part recipe for getting useful work out of AI, and the ingredient most people skip.
AI Adoption Is a Manager Conversation
Why a top-down AI mandate backfires, and the channel that already carries weight.
Purple Was the Missing Dimension
A cross-functional color decision won on brand strategy rather than taste.
Naming Is Information Architecture
Why one capability with several names is an IA problem, not a branding one.
AI Agents Reward Decomposition, Not Delegation
The real bottleneck to AI adoption on design teams is task decomposition.
The AI Users Respond To Is the AI They Can't See
Holding the tension between an AI-forward brand and users who prefer AI unlabeled.
The Scalability Argument Hiding in a Color Choice
A crit about button placement was really a debate about information architecture.
The Cost of Being the Optimistic One
A leadership assessment, a hard piece of feedback, and the cost of optimism.