process

An essay critiquing tech culture's obsession with speed, arguing that it often masks impatience and poor judgment, and advocating for slowing down to build genuine understanding.

A reflection on whether the competitive advantage in AI is shifting from the models themselves to the workflows and user experience built around them, using examples from coding tools and note-taking apps.

The article argues that when implementing approval checkpoints, making them required but flexible in formality is more effective than making them optional but formal. This approach reduces risk for decision-makers and allows teams to move quickly while reserving deeper scrutiny for complex projects.

A broker wanted an AI-powered CRM but the real problem was that agents weren't logging calls. The fix was simple automation to log calls automatically and provide a daily task list, with no AI involved.

Ramp adopts a layered release strategy, pushing major features daily, splitting releases into early access (EA) and general availability (GA) layers. EA covers 10% of customers and 5000+ enterprises. Before GA, they must submit evidence: demo, KPIs, customer feedback, support readiness, and launch plan, to accelerate iteration.

Spork is a C library that provides a posix_spawn-based alternative to fork, offering better performance and safety for process creation.