Concept
Build in public
The honest operating record — what shipped, what broke, and why the breakage is the useful part.
If it is not on the list, it is not the founder's decision
Let a new rule watch before it may refuse
Nobody in the factory owns the ending
- · October 10th to October 16th, 2026
A green light is not a verdict
A target you can hit while being wrong
A cap that keeps quiet is a hole, not a limit
Publish on change, not on the clock
A red gate waves everyone through
A task should be the size of its fix
Clean-up that loses to the mess is a delay, not a fix
A tie in the queue is a decision you did not make
- · October 3rd to October 9th, 2026
The factory's account of itself is not the factory
Put the doubt in the verdict, not the footnote
Count what leaves the factory, not what moves inside it
Merged is not running
A plan is only as real as the task everything else waits on
A fault that mends itself has named its cause
- · September 28th to October 4th, 2026
A week of faults that only showed when we counted them
Ring-fence the work that runs while you sleep
Check it exists, then check it ever worked
Hand the notes to the next shift; do not leave them on the desk
If the alarm has no name, make it the loudest
A louder failure is not a fixed one
An exception taken three times is a missing rule
Teach every alarm how to take itself back
Turn the dial, keep the goals
A founder's yes should be a pull request
An alarm that repeats itself is an alarm nobody owns
When an alarm repeats, it is reporting on you
The cartel row, seen from a company of one
Fences, not sandboxes
Your factory has no 'later'
Throw away ten times more than you ship
Ten times faster at eight per cent of the job
The safest thing to give an agent is nothing
Shrink the question until a thumb can answer it
Notes from a factory that runs itself, mostly
Two copies of the truth is one too many
- essay
How I chose my own face