Essays & Notes
Ideas in progress about ownership, privacy, local-first software, AI, and the craft of building products that people still trust ten years from now.
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6 min readCloud storage was built for files, not for memories. It optimises for sync, scale, and convenience — while the photos and moments people care about most quietly become someone else's inventory.
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7 min readEvery backup provider promises encryption. Far fewer can explain who holds the key. That single detail decides whether your data is truly private or merely protected from everyone except your provider.
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8 min readThe most important product decision of the next decade isn't what software can do — it's what it lets you keep.
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10 min readThe architecture we traded for convenience, and the cost of bringing it back.
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6 min readWhy the simplest version of a system is usually the most engineered one.
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7 min readThe best AI doesn't make decisions for people. It makes people better at deciding.
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9 min readPrivacy shouldn't be a bullet point on a pricing page. It should be the default state of the product.
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5 min readSoftware that gets better with time is rare. Here's what it takes to build it.
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