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Nine years of notes is a lot to walk into cold. This page is the guided path — the posts that explain how I think, in the order that makes them make sense.
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The Carry-On Tech Kit I've Rebuilt 11 Times
Four years, 40-odd countries, and a bag that finally stopped annoying me. Every item, what it replaced, and the three things I stopped carrying entirely.
eSIM vs Local SIM vs Roaming: The Actual Math
I tracked the cost per usable gigabyte across 14 countries. The convenient option is roughly 6x the price of the annoying one — here's when that's still worth paying.
Working Across Time Zones Without Wrecking Your Sleep
The scheduling rules I follow when my clients are in one hemisphere and my bed is in another. Includes the overlap-window math that made it sustainable.
The stack that keeps a one-person business running while you're in transit or asleep.
My AI Workflow — And the Three Places It Still Fails
The honest version. What AI genuinely saves me hours on, what it quietly makes worse, and the review step I refuse to skip after getting burned.
Why I Still Ship Static Sites in 2026
No build server, no framework churn, no 3am deploy failures. What static actually costs you, and the exact point where I stop recommending it.
I Built 17 Automations. Five Survived the Year.
A post-mortem on the twelve that died. The pattern behind the survivors turned out to be embarrassingly simple, and it isn't about the tooling.
The researched explainers. Longer, slower, and the ones I'm proudest of.
How Search Actually Decides What to Show You
Crawling, indexing, retrieval, ranking, and the generated answer on top. A plain-English walkthrough of the pipeline, with the parts you can influence marked.
The Research Method: From Vague Question to Publishable Answer
The six-step loop I run before writing anything factual. It's slower than guessing and it's the only reason I've had to publish very few corrections.
How to Spot Bad Data in Under a Minute
Seven checks that catch most junk statistics before you repeat them: sample size, base rate, source chain, date drift, and the three framing tricks.
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Everything above took months to figure out. The newsletter is where the next batch shows up first — usually before it's polished enough to publish.
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