Notes — Simon Orzel

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// so I can pretend to be productive while watching YouTube

total 57[57 files]

00-rw-r--r--★if_you_were_an_engineer.md

2026-10-21 01-rw-r--r--★team_frontier_minus_one.md

2026-10-19 02-rw-r--r--★a_better_product_isn't_allowed_to_show_up_uninvited.md

2026-10-07 03-rw-r--r--▶dhh_at_rails_world_2026:_clis_for_agents,_native_for_humans,_the_web_for_strangers.md

2026-09-30 04-rw-r--r--★chasing_the_frontier_is_the_new_self-help.md

2026-09-17 05-rw-r--r--★the_lie_isn't_that_it's_hard.md

2026-09-14 06-rw-r--r--★i_picked_open_source_and_called_it_a_market_read.md

2026-09-11 07-rw-r--r--★skill_is_stored_effort,_ai_is_borrowed_effort.md

2026-09-09 08-rw-r--r--★the_path_of_most_resistance_is_the_luckiest_route.md

2026-07-07 09-rw-r--r--★you_don't_find_the_three,_you_grow_them.md

2026-06-30 10-rw-r--r--★incompetence_isn't_a_vibe.md

2026-06-17 11-rw-r--r--★free_will_only_shows_up_under_risk.md

2026-06-14 12-rw-r--r--★dream_job_is_an_oxymoron.md

2026-06-11 13-rw-r--r--★strength_is_functioning_while_it_hurts.md

2026-06-08 14-rw-r--r--★what's_left_is_creativity,_imagination,_time.md

2026-06-05 15-rw-r--r--★not_b2b,_not_b2c,_human_to_human.md

2026-06-05 16-rw-r--r--★the_more_you_know,_the_worse_you_sound.md

2026-05-28 17-rw-r--r--★the_higher_the_mountain_the_thinner_the_air.md

2026-05-28 18-rw-r--r--★spend_your_stupidity_in_one_place.md

2026-05-26 19-rw-r--r--★staying_is_the_wrong_word.md

2026-05-23 20-rw-r--r--★the_brand_is_the_person_or_there's_no_brand.md

2026-05-18 21-rw-r--r--★the_post_that_went_35k,_and_the_seven_before_it_that_didn't.md

2026-05-15 22-rw-r--r--★boring_is_the_moat.md

2026-05-11 23-rw-r--r--★i_built_the_wrong_thing,_they_wanted_a_graph.md

2026-05-08 24-rw-r--r--★somewhere_along_the_way.md

2026-05-04 25-rw-r--r--★you_can't_plan,_and_that's_the_point.md

2026-05-01 26-rw-r--r--★snail_mail_beats_email_in_2026.md

2026-04-28 27-rw-r--r--★pricing-on-request_is_a_dark_pattern.md

2026-04-24 28-rw-r--r--★constraint,_not_rule.md

2026-04-20 29-rw-r--r--★nothing_more_interesting_than_failure.md

2026-04-12 30-rw-r--r--★noise_is_the_silent_killer.md

2026-04-05 31-rw-r--r--★the_day_claude_was_bad.md

2026-03-25 32-rw-r--r--★writing_got_cheap,_reading_matters_more.md

2026-03-15 33-rw-r--r--★the_migration_problem_you_don't_notice_until_you_have_five_people_on_claude_code.md

2026-03-04 34-rw-r--r--★the_only_thing_that_didn't_get_cheaper.md

2026-02-26 35-rw-r--r--★honesty,_tolerance,_congruency_of_thought_and_action.md

2026-02-20 36-rw-r--r--★bootstrapping_is_the_competitive_advantage.md

2026-02-12 37-rw-r--r--▶james_dickerson:_ai_marketing_masterclass_with_claude_code.md

2026-02-10 38-rw-r--r--★scheduling_is_just_1d_collisions.md

2026-02-08 39-rw-r--r--★dot_your_ts,_cross_your_lower-case_js.md

2026-02-04 40-rw-r--r--★never_been_better_thanks.md

2026-02-02 41-rw-r--r--★the_technical_gap_is_closed._now_what..md

2026-01-30 42-rw-r--r--★last_day_of_my_20s,_heres_the_post_game_recap.md

2026-01-25 43-rw-r--r--★llms,_diffs_and_moats.md

2026-01-20 44-rw-r--r--◆casey_on_aws_dynamodb_outage:_when_rcas_explain_nothing.md

2026-01-16 45-rw-r--r--▶ralph_loops:_fresh_context_for_ai_coding_agents.md

2026-01-16 46-rw-r--r--▶inside_xai:_how_they_ship_so_fast.md

2026-01-16 47-rw-r--r--◆building_a_$2,000/month_app_from_scratch.md

2025-01-16 48-rw-r--r--▶i_read_honey's_source_code.md

2025-01-16 49-rw-r--r--▶anthropic_acquires_bun_to_supercharge_claude_code.md

2025-01-15 50-rw-r--r--▶the_unhinged_world_of_tech_in_2026.md

2025-01-14 51-rw-r--r--▶mid-career_software_engineer_reflects_on_25_years_in_tech_and_getting_laid_off.md

2025-01-14 52-rw-r--r--▶boris_cherny_on_building_claude_code_at_anthropic.md

2025-01-12 53-rw-r--r--◇code_is_cheap_now._software_isn't..md

2025-01-10 54-rw-r--r--▶ilya_grigorik_on_being_a_distinguished_engineer_at_shopify.md

2024-11-28 55-rw-r--r--▶ethan_evans_on_being_fired_twice_and_becoming_vp_at_amazon.md

2024-09-15 56-rw-r--r--▶jake_bolam_on_being_a_principal_engineer_at_meta.md

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