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Posts and long-form series on AI, startups, venture capital, and more.
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Writing Job Postings That Actually Work: A Hiring Manager's Guide
A hiring manager's guide to crafting job postings that attract the right candidates and set clear expectations about the role.
Reading Between the Lines: How to Analyze Job Postings as a Candidate
How to decode job postings as a candidate, including red flags, green flags, and what companies are actually telling you.
Smoked Chicken with Alabama White Sauce
How to make tender smoked chicken paired with Alabama's famous tangy white barbecue sauce, a regional gem from 1925 Decatur.
Two Ways: Grilled Marinated Wings
Two grilled wing recipes for fake fall in Atlanta - lemon pepper and sticky fish sauce, both grilled whole for easier handling.
The Internet Economy Battle Royale: Bots vs Content
How payment protocols like Coinbase's x402 and Cloudflare's bot management are reshaping the economic fabric of the internet, echoing the early cable TV wars.
Vibe Coding a Personal CRM in Swift (Having Never Written Swift)
How I built a native macOS CRM app in 12 hours using Claude Code, despite never having written Swift before. True vibe coding.
The Mensarius Oath: When Ancient Banking Meets Modern Ethics
How ancient Roman public bankers inspired a modern ethical framework for venture capital and finance professionals today.
Summer Reading List 2025
A roundup of the books I've enjoyed this summer across history, biography, and business from cod fish to Formula 1 racing.
Management Technical Debt: The Hidden Costs of Quick Fixes
How shortcuts in engineering management create organizational patterns that seem efficient short-term but compound into major problems.
Metrics That Actually Matter (And the Ones That Don't)
Why most startup dashboards are full of vanity metrics that feel important but don't drive better decisions, and what to track instead.