Why We Really Build in Public (And Why It Matters More Than Ever)
"Building in public" isn't what it used to be.
Just two years ago, sharing your work-in-progress
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AI and the Future of Human Connection... What It Will Reveal About Us
We often ask whether AI will replace human connection. But perhaps the more important question is whether AI will reveal
How Leading AI Teams Are Engineering Context at Scale
Leading AI teams at Anthropic, Manus, and Cognition are solving agents that break after dozens of tool calls. Lance Martin reveals battle-tested techniques keeping production AI systems coherent through hundreds of interactions—from smart offloading to multi-agent coordination.
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Context Engineering: Why Production AI Needs More Than Prompt Engineering
A new AI discipline is reshaping how we build production systems. Context Engineering goes beyond simple prompting to solve the complex information management challenges that break real-world applications—and it's creating an entirely new community of practitioners.
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Inventive vs Generative: Why AI Can’t Truly Invent
While AI is busy burning tokens remixing the past, the best of us are inventing the future.
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Software Is Using Us Now
Software used to serve us.
Now it uses us — not passively, but actively.
AI agents engage, escalate, and rely on humans to complete their mission.
We’re no longer just users. We’re becoming part of the system.
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It Is Good
Being Complete in the Midst of Incompletion...
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The Era of Nearly Free Labor: The 3 ‘C’s to Succeed
And no — ‘ChatGPT’ is NOT one of them.
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Content. After Death.
How to prolong life with good content
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5 Dangerous and Awful-sounding Principles for Life
The Birthday Post
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First Day. Second Chance.
Why I believe New Year's Day is special to us all.
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I'm Bankrupt
I wish I could end the year on a more positive note, but I can’t.
Someone once introduced the
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Old? No. Advanced.
Words. Our entire framework for interpreting reality — is found in language.
And we — not others — choose the language that we
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“Past Prime”
I have not met a single person, who - in their late 30’s or 40’s - did not
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Lying About My Age
I lie about my age consistently.
But in my defense — I tell people I’m lying.
When someone asks me
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Does your left hand know, what your right hand is doing?
Collective, Anonymous Giving. The 'Why' and 'How'.
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Not So Ordinary. Not Quite Expected.
There are some things that I do, almost second nature, that people appreciate. And there are some things I have,
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Principle: (Publish > Distribute) < Launch
How I work...