We did it ourselves: notes on the Tao Te Ching →
A 2,500-year-old book that kept describing my job. Four passages on leading invisibly, starting small, subtracting daily, and teaching without words.
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A running list of things I'm thinking through, most of it pulled from my own notes and half-finished arguments. These are rough drafts, not finished essays. I'm posting the titles and the gist early, partly to make myself write them.
Work in progress · personal notesEducating together →
The highest-leverage thing we can do for education is make it easy for parents to learn alongside their kids. A case for tightening the loop between kids, parents, schools and communities, and for treating learning intent as the real asset.
Raising kids across two cultures →
A father's first-principles toolkit, reconciled across two value systems: a South Indian upbringing and the Swedish world my sons are growing up in. What I chose to carry over, what I let go of, and the questions I still haven't answered.
I built a coding tutor for my sons →
A build log. A sandboxed, browser-based coding classroom where each kid gets a container and a terminal in the tab, no setup and no IDE, with an AI tutor alongside. Why I built it, and what I learned watching them use it.
Thinking like an AI teacher →
Two lenses for building learning tools. As a teacher: know the learner, assess gently, actually care that they progress. As a technologist: every early AI product is skeuomorphic, so you change one variable at a time to find what's genuinely new.
What AGI does to my kids' world →
AGI's economic upheaval through the two lenses I actually hold: a parent of young kids, and an engineering director whose own role it reshapes. Less forecast, more "what does this mean for them, and for me?"
Rethinking speed: the Information Highway →
Teams don't move fast because they're handed autonomy. They move fast when information travels quickly between the people making decisions. A case for small bets in one direction, and for leaders who set direction instead of watching the work.
Context is the real product →
Context constrains the search space, clarifies intent, and cuts compute. For anything built on a general model, managing context about the user and the material is the real differentiator, not the model. Plus a note on stress-testing your own strategy before you commit to it.
Smart people mistake complexity for insight →
Intelligent people are uniquely prone to confusing complexity with depth: the ten-page memo that should be one page, the system that costs twice as much and impresses everyone. Mastery is the elegant simplicity that cuts through.