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Every engineer knows the deal with technical debt. You take a shortcut to ship something today, and you pay for it later. The interest compounds quietly until one day a simple change takes a week, and nobody remembers why. I think I've been taking on a different kind of debt.

I haven't seen The Roots live since I lived in Berlin many years ago. That sentence covers more time than I want to think about. So when I heard they were coming to the Blue Note in LA, I immediately knew I wanted to attend. The band and the venue did not disappoint.

This weekend, I wired my website into the AT Protocol. It took an afternoon and one stubbornly old config file, and now my writing lives on the network itself.

Everyone's arguing about which AI tool writes the best code or generates the best images. Meanwhile, the companies building these systems are racing to ship faster, raise more, and consolidate more power than any tech cycle before them. And a small group of researchers, journalists, and engineers have been trying to get your attention about…

I came across a post by Cassidy Williams a few weeks ago about LLM discoverability. The gist: she asked ChatGPT some tech discovery questions, noticed it didn't recommend her, then asked why. The AI gave her a list of things to fix. She fixed them. It worked.

Some shows stay with you long after the lights come up. The Zac Brown Band at Sphere was one of them.

The redwoods have always been my happy place! There's something about their quiet strength and scale that just calms my brain, and I just saw a documentary that took me there!

A few days ago, on Presidents’ Day, I joined a protest to express my disgust and disappointment with what is happening under this new regime. And honestly? I feel better and many people still rock!

This week marks my 5th anniversary at Kajabi. 🎉 It has been an incredible ride so far, and I continue to be very excited by the continued growth and trajectory of the company.