'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.
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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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.
I Built the Wrong Thing First
Most founders build the product. I built the database. It took three years to understand why that was the right mistake.