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Essays on work, judgment and being human in an AI economy.

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August 26, 2026

Real scarcity beats fake urgency

A countdown timer that resets every time you reload is a lie your customer can see. A cap you actually enforce is a promise you keep. Founding-member pricing only works when the scarcity is real — and real scarcity is the one growth lever a tiny shop can pull without spending a dollar.

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July 27, 2026

The metric that quietly broke is the outage you'll never see coming

A product going down is loud. The failure that actually costs you is the quiet one: the product keeps working while the number that watches it dies. Here is how a healthy product goes dark on your dashboard — and the habits that catch it.

July 23, 2026

What Are You Actually Afraid Of?

The question "what would you do if you weren't afraid?" asks you to imagine a self that doesn't exist. The sharper question — what are you actually afraid of? — costs something to answer.

July 23, 2026

The checkout you never tested is the feature you never shipped

A page that works and a page that earns are two different facts, and only one is visible from your side of the screen. A ten-minute, end-to-end audit for the payment failures that hide from status checks and quietly burn your ad budget.

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