I’ve always admired people who keep a blog — a place where thinking lives in public, not only in Slack threads or half-finished notes. I wanted that. I just never quite started.
Past attempts stalled for the usual reasons: the blank page, perfectionism, and never enough time. Autism made starting harder still — I’ll say more about that another time. Admiring other people’s blogs was easy. Opening one of my own was not.
What’s changed is how I work.
As I’ve built toward a kind of software factory with agents — grinding out PRDs, fleshing implementation tickets in Linear or scratch markdown, orchestrating parallel work with my jjfx harness — I find myself writing more English than code. Clear thinking, written down, is what makes the agents useful. Fuzzy thinking doesn’t.
That same grind helps writing. Throwing something up and hitting publish is weaker than taking loose components, grilling them, and refining until there’s a solid understanding. Agents help with that loop. They don’t have to be only for code or product. They can be for this too.
So the blog is practice. A place to exercise the prose muscle that being a better “agent wrangler” actually needs, as the industry shifts under all of us. Career reflection sits in the background of why I’m doing this; I’ll go deeper on that later. For now, the big why-now is simple: writing clearly is the work, and I want a public place to do it.
I don’t have a rigid plan for what lives here. Sometimes small, cool things. Sometimes bigger pieces. I’m not locking into a niche. I just want to write more.
This is the first post. More soon.