Notes on operating digital businesses
Written notes on structure, systems, and the long-term operation of software-driven businesses. Each essay exists because a decision needed clarifying, so there is no publishing schedule.

What Friction Was For
The build times and slow colleagues I spent years trying to remove weren't just waste. They were pacing me, and I didn't notice until the pacing was gone.

The Co-Founder Was a Workaround
Every guide said find a co-founder before a customer. Right for my first company, wrong for what I run now, except for one thing the guides never mention.

The Blocklist Is the Product
AI made sending free. Attention did not get cheaper — it got scarcer. Why the systems that decide what NOT to send are becoming the real asset.
















