Life Is Long Enough
Jeff Dean helped build the systems beneath Google. His calendar still made room for yoga, football, and a 30-minute meeting with an intern.
Latest field notes
Recent Notes
Small observations from the workbench.
Antarctica Is the Largest Desert
A fifth-standard boy corrected my geography. Another family used one plain AI question to find an opportunity for their son's book.
Companies & OSS
Kailash Nadh, Zerodha, Cloudflare, and Shopify show the discipline behind a costly choice: inherit, extend, fork, or build a production system from scratch.
Companies & Languages
Jane Street, Ericsson, NeXT, Google, Meta, Roblox, and Apple show when a company can justify years of investment in a programming language.
Craft Does Not Retire
A director near 80 and a composer in his nineties shipped a 2026 movie. Work stays alive when you enjoy the process and keep learning.