Founder field notes by Mark Nicoll

Rust Crate

Building complex software, AI systems, graph infrastructure, product architecture, and decision systems in slow-moving sectors.

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All Stored in the Old Rust Crate

Two weeks of heat, halyards, a storybook promise, Behaviour OS, and the unnamed third system. A field note from the build.

Why I Built Deployed Works

I built Deployed Works because modern teams often need deployable capability before they need permanent headcount.

The Oak

Why a relational database gives you the trunk and nothing else, and what it takes to build something that can read across the wood itself.

The Workstation

A boring but useful breakdown of the hardware and tooling behind every Rust engine I build. People always ask. Here is the actual answer.

SS-DD (Same Shit, Different Day)

Why the same Rust engine can power six different health surfaces, and why nobody can copy the blueprint without having lived the context that produced it.

'Cos This Is Thriller, Thriller Night

The night I negotiated a contract with Michael Jackson's creative team, drunk, with no brief and no authority. What I learned has driven everything since.

Compile or Die

The Rust compiler does not care about your intentions. It cares about your precision. That is not a bug. It is the whole point.

Live and Let Die

Two near-deaths, a decade of being told nothing was wrong, and what I finally understood about how systems fail from the inside out.