Writing
Notes on building companies and products.
2026
Shipping Faster with Tiny Vertical Slices 16 min It is possible shipping many times fast and creating a lot more value by being much more extreme in scoping things down. In this essay, I'm making showing how to execute that and what to avoid. On the alphalist CTO Podcast: The Company Brain 3 min 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. Principles for a Customer-Facing Agent That Knows Too Much 5 min 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. Work in Progress Creates Complexity 8 min 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.
2025
What I learned about Validating Ideas 8 min Lessons from pivot hell: how we validated ideas quickly, learned to sell before building, and found the problem worth solving. How Product Engineering Shortens the Learning Loop 4 min Why product engineers at Kombo stay close to customers and own problems from discovery through adoption.