Essays
Things I've been chewing on
Longer pieces, usually started by a conversation I couldn't drop. Just what I've been thinking about.
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The traffic drop that wasn't an SEO problem
Rankings held and traffic fell. The cause was a media decision two floors away, and the check that finds it takes twenty minutes.
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Debugging my Mandarin
Mandarin never became a habit and studying harder was never going to fix it. So the practice runs as a pipeline: local transcripts, a correction swarm and mistakes tracked like bugs, read back in my own voice.
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The AI gain has a ceiling
Most of the AI value in a tech company lands in operations. That gain is real, it arrives fast, and it caps twice: in how much you get and in how long you keep it.