Tag · 5 essays
Writing tagged "Personal".
Coding is largely solved. Agents with a great product vision can produce what used to take teams weeks. But the act of writing code by hand isn't dying - it's transforming from a necessity into a craft. Like knitting, you won't need to do it. You'll choose to.
This article explores how AI has radically reduced the cost of producing things, creating an intoxicating sense of limitless output for ambitious people. But when building becomes almost frictionless, the real bottleneck shifts from implementation to judgment. The author argues that taste (the ability to choose what is worth building) and genuine rest become the true sources of leverage. AI is an exceptional how engine, but deciding what and why remains a deeply human responsibility. Without rest, our judgment degrades, and we risk building more but meaning less. The piece encourages pairing curiosity and experimentation with discipline, restraint, and strategic downtime.
After four and a half months of full on training I’ve decided not to run the Amsterdam marathon on...
Exactly one year ago, when we had just moved to Paris, the marathon passed by our apartment in Rue...
From fat and sick to slim and happy Aside from a short period in high school I have always...