Innovation Matters

Essays on AI, developer tools, and thoughtful software.

  • Every team needs a knowledge interface

    For years, organizations invested in intranets, enterprise search, wikis, metadata, taxonomies, knowledge graphs. None of this is new, so why does it suddenly feel urgent again? Because the audience changed.

  • "Coding is solved" misses the point

    Every few weeks, someone declares that coding is solved. If they mean turning a well-specified problem into runnable code, they're increasingly right. But was writing runnable code ever the whole problem?

  • Making room for your thoughts while reading

    I'm trying something new with this blog. You can now annotate essays as you read and keep your notes private in your browser. Print the essay to PDF to take your thinking with you.