The notebook

Slow thoughts on things that feel right

A growing collection of tangents, half-theories, and notes to future me on design, code, and the space in between.

04 entries • Updated when a thought finishes
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Most recent Nº 01

Why Am I Repeating Myself?

I use coding agents every day. They have months of evidence about how I work, saved in memory and project instructions. Somehow I still spend half my time reminding them who I am.

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Three open doors in a dim hallway, with bright light spilling through the middle doorway.
Nº 02

Why I Left Claude Code

Claude Code was muscle memory until my subscription started deciding where I could work. The reason I stayed with Codex came later.

A hand tossing the Earth upward like a ball, the planet suspended mid-air against an open sky.
Nº 03

The World is Yours

A month into a new city on a one-way ticket. No job yet, a bank account that keeps shrinking, and a belief I'm still learning how to carry. Believing you can do anything, and what it costs to try.

A muscular man in ancient Greek attire straining to push a massive, rounded boulder up a steep, rocky incline.
Nº 04

Why Designing for Yourself Never Ships

The hardest client I've ever worked with is me. No deadlines, no constraints, no one else's taste to blame. Just me and an infinite canvas, rolling the same rock up the same hill.