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On the alphalist CTO Podcast: The Company Brain Aug 2026 I joined Tobias Schlottke on the alphalist CTO Podcast to talk about how Kombo replaced Notion AI with a git repo of markdown files and Cursor cloud agents, and how we think about the lethal trifecta. Work in Progress Creates Complexity Jul 2026 Complexity comes from how much work is in progress, not how hard it is. An overlooked fix is to reject it early instead of building bigger systems to manage it. Principles for a Customer-Facing Agent That Knows Too Much Jul 2026 A useful agent needs access to more data than the user it talks to. That is also what makes it dangerous. Notes on the security model we use at Kombo.
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- 01 Put trust first.
- 02 Optimize for your own energy.
- 03 Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
- 04 Do things as complex as necessary, as simple as possible.
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