Writing
- No Free Ratings
Banning a digit doesn't kill the cowardice — it relocates it. I banned 7s on my bake ratings, and the middle 6 inherited it. The rule is a lens, not a fix.
- Every Story Needs an Earned Secret
STAR-perfect interview answers fail because they're recall, not insight. The two-sentence rule that makes a story memorable: a counterintuitive POV plus the proof only you could have.
- Retiring Products That Work
Squarespace had five mobile apps. Three had 4.9-star ratings. I retired all of them. The retirements worth getting right kill the seam, not the product.
- Reverse-Engineering Google Flights
Every legitimate path to flight pricing data was too expensive, too unreliable, or dead. So I reverse-engineered Google Flights' undocumented API and built swoop, an open-source Python library for programmatic airfare data.
- Open Hours: An Exercise in Building and Learning Quickly
Building an app for spontaneous phone calls with friends, and what we learned about network effects.
- pee(k)
An IoT device concept that analyzes urine for health indicators, targeting adult children caring for elderly parents.
- on Universe
A detailed product analysis of Universe, a mobile app for creating websites.
- the splitty chronicles
Building an AI-powered receipt scanning app for splitting bills with friends.