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Notes on product, engineering leadership, and building AI-native software in retail.

October 13, 2026

Building with Claude

A four-part training series I ran for my team on building with Claude: guardrails, the Claude Code workflow, deciding what to build, and multiplying what works.

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October 10, 2026

My Old Laptop Felt Sluggish. Its GPU Was Stuck in Slow Mode.

An evening of tinkering with a 2013 NVIDIA GPU on Linux, together with Claude Opus 5.5: finding out it ran at its slowest speed, testing faster speeds one careful step at a time, and a side quest that ended in an open bug.

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October 6, 2026

15 Must-Have GNOME Extensions for Anyone Switching to Linux

Moving to Ubuntu, Fedora or any GNOME-based distro? These 15 extensions fill the gaps on day one — with a bias toward making Linux feel like a Mac.

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August 29, 2026

The Demo Is the Spec

A PRD can be internally consistent and still describe an incoherent product. A working prototype can feel the contradictions that prose hides.

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December 14, 2025

The Day I Stopped Prioritizing Features

Why every prioritization framework kept failing me across six products — and how treating attention, not engineering hours, as the scarce resource became Return on Attention.

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