kernels

one-sentence ideas. seeds that might become something.

april 2026

• never a ‘new’ creator; remix, see random connections, combinatorial type thinking. see what emerges.
• lowercase isn’t ai slop, it’s MY slop. and yet shifts focus so provide options for opting in to normal experience. default is lowerchaos though ;P → lowerchaos
• interested and interesting. the combo together is special; one without the other sucks.
• fitfo. figure it the fuck outness.
• i close my eyes when i use wispr flow. noticing a pattern.
• when it feels possible to build everything, it doesn’t mean we should build everything possible.
• build boosters, not nag naysayers.
• grief and mourning in the age of ai-augmented software engineering. something is happening here.
• spurtability. the way i work in bursts, not marathons.

march 2026

• a response to the bland ass bullshit writing taking over everything. authenticity as resistance. → probabilistically perfect piggies
• what is the writing process? what is my writing process? how’s an ai-augmented writing process or writing system look and feel like? but…why?
• places that changed me. grayton, guatemala, berlin, japan.
• sports are systems. analytics, emergent strategy, why i can’t stop watching.
• looking back at who i was. marching on chairs, rallying, not always kind.
• intensity is a feature, not a bug. but the social feedback doesn’t always agree.
• what and who is influencing me. categorized, not just listed.
• hobbies evolve. what are the patterns in what i keep coming back to?
• freedom rides, alabama, the through-line to now.
• seeing my daughter grow. family values. high-performing team of two.
• documentaries, photography, software. creativity shows up everywhere.
• autonomy. belief. perfectionism.
• about me keeps changing. explore who this is in 2026.
• debugging is a love language. the patience to sit with someone else’s broken thing.
• if you had to start somewhere with ai, here’s what i’d hand you.
• therapy. essential.
• two geometric tattoos that shape how i think and approach things.
• enneagram 7 wing 8. ooooh, we’re letting it rip!
• getting diagnosed with adhd as an adult. the relief of finally having a name for it.
• we’re all builders. wait, what have i actually built?
• the two week sprint was built for 2001. what’s the 2026 version?
• it is our job to get stuck and then get unstuck.
• mindsets, values, and principles that i live by.
• everyone has an experimentation budget. most people don’t know they’re spending it. → mental experimentation budgets
• the cambrian explosion happened because the environment changed. fractals everywhere.
• what is the cosmic farmland? why that name?
• just start. build, notice friction, fix it. repeat forever. → bff: build friction fix