Design Philosophy: Dieter Rams — Less, But Better
Dieter Rams designed 500+ products at Braun by asking one question: what can I remove? His ten principles changed how we think about objects.
Design & CultureWriting
Thoughts on design, development, AI infrastructure, and building products.
Design Philosophy: Virgil Abloh — Everything in Quotes
Virgil Abloh turned a civil engineering degree and a 3% change into the most influential design career of the 2010s. Everything in quotes.
Design & CultureDesign Philosophy: Susan Kare — Meaningful, Memorable, Clear
Susan Kare designed the Macintosh icons with a $2.50 sketchbook and a 32x32 pixel grid. Her method -- meaningful, memorable, clear -- still works.
Design & CultureDesign Philosophy: Tadao Ando, Concrete, Light, and the Void
Tadao Ando taught himself architecture from books, boxed professionally, then built the most spiritual spaces of the 20th century in concrete and light.
Design & CultureDesign Philosophy: Dapper Dan — Knock-Ups, Not Knock-Offs
Dapper Dan built luxury fashion in Harlem with screen-printed logos and 27 Senegalese tailors. The brands that sued him eventually hired him back.
Design & CultureEvery Hook Is a Scar: 84 Agent Failures Encoded in Code
84 hooks intercept 15 of the 26 lifecycle event types Claude Code exposes. Each one traces back to a specific production failure: wiped caches, leaked credentials, phantom tests.
AI & TechnologyThe Evidence Gate: Proof Over Plausibility in AI Output
\"I believe\" and \"it should\" are not evidence. Every agent completion report needs a file path, test output, or specific code before marking work done.
AI & TechnologyThe Fork Bomb Saved Us
The LiteLLM attacker made one implementation mistake. That mistake was the only reason 47,000 installs got caught in 46 minutes.
AI & TechnologyTaste Is Infrastructure: Encoding Aesthetic Judgment for AI
Agents have capability without opinion. The quality ceiling depends on how well you encode aesthetic judgment into hooks, gates, and constraints.
AI & TechnologySeventeen Thousand Signals
My vault has 17,900 signals from arXiv, Semantic Scholar, HN, NVD, and 9 other sources. Most are noise. The noise taught me what signal looks like.
AI & TechnologyQuality Is the Only Variable When AI Agents Build
Time, cost, resources, and effort are not constraints. The question is what's right, not what's efficient. A philosophy for building with AI agents.
AI & TechnologyThe Handoff Document: Agent Memory Across Sessions
A diagnosis survived three corrections over four days and guided a fix that cut page load from 14s to 108ms. Handoffs carry context agents cannot.
AI & TechnologyExternal Publications
Technical writing at Introl
Local LLM Hardware Pricing Guide 2025
Comprehensive hardware recommendations and cost analysis for running large language models locally.
H100 vs. H200 vs. B200: Choosing the Right NVIDIA GPUs for Your AI Workload
GPU selection guide comparing NVIDIA's latest datacenter accelerators for different AI workloads.
TPU Architecture: Complete Guide to Google's 7 Generations
Deep technical dive into Google's Tensor Processing Unit evolution from TPUv1 to TPUv5.
GPU Memory Pooling in Multi-Tenant Kubernetes
Resource sharing strategies for GPU clusters in containerized environments.
Ray Clusters: Distributed AI Computing Infrastructure
Guide to building and managing distributed AI computing with Ray framework.
DeepSeek V3 Open Source AI Cost Advantage
Analysis of open source LLM economics and DeepSeek's competitive positioning.
NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPU 600kW Racks 2027
Future datacenter power requirements and NVIDIA's next-generation GPU roadmap.
SMR Nuclear Power for AI Data Centers
Small modular reactor solutions for powering next-generation AI infrastructure.
DeepSeek MHC Architecture Breakthrough
Technical analysis of DeepSeek's Multi-Head Compression architecture innovations.
