Writing

Essays on technology leadership, AI adoption, and software strategy.

The End of Simplicity

10 February 2026 · 9 min read

When AI collapses the cost of building features and agents replace human users, what happens to our instinct for simplicity? A fractional CTO's perspective on abundance, discipline, and software bloat.

The Spreadsheet Moment

15 January 2026 · 5 min read

AI code generation is doing for software what VisiCalc did for financial modelling — putting creation power into the hands of people who understand problems, not just those trained to build solutions.

The Accidental Operating System

18 November 2025 · 2 min read

Holacracy was criticised as too rigid for humans. It might have been building the organisational architecture AI agents need.