You're Not Burnt Out. You're Unmonitored.
A founder's note that reframes running hot as a visibility problem: a high-load system with no readout, no recovery budget and no clear signal to change course.
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You Have Observability for Your Systems. You Have None for Yourself.
A founder's note: engineers have deep observability for their systems and almost none for how the work is landing on them. Written from lived experience.
The Slot Machine in Your IDE
Why AI-assisted work is so hard to stop: a founder's note on the variable-reward loop in prompting, and how to put sane stop signals back into the work.
Your Output Is Fine. Your Recovery Isn't.
A founder's note on the measure I learned to watch too late: output can hold up long after recovery has started to slip. Written from lived experience.