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Every Friday, I send a synthesis of the week's insights from building things on the internet for over a decade.

What to expect

I'm experimenting with a format that connects the dots between my weekly content: blog posts, LinkedIn reflections, and real-time documentation of building on the internet.

Each newsletter includes:

  • A synthesis of the week's themes and how they connect
  • Three resources that shaped my thinking (articles, tools, videos, tweets)
  • One meta-insight from the documented experiences

Why Friday reflections?

After years of documenting insights in isolation, I realized the real value comes from seeing how they connect. The newsletter is where I step back and find patterns across the week's work.

This isn't about manufactured content or generic advice. It's about extracting universal principles from specific experiences: building businesses like developing carpeta.app, co-founding wtc.studio, and yes, leading 30+ engineers at Buffer.

The through-line? Years of figuring out what works when building on the internet, whether it's a side project or scaling a distributed engineering team.

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