Building a compliance RAG product showed me that engineering was the easy part. The harder question was whether I understood the domain well enough to build something people could trust and pay for. Three indie developers helped me rethink how to choose what to build.
Writings
Last weekend, my creative writing teacher invited me to the highest-stakes Texas Hold'em tournament I had ever played in. After it ended, I told a friend who came with me, "That game might have been my biggest dopamine spike of the first half of this year.
Time, attention, and the game of life
In February 2024, I came across the idea of a “Peak Performance Partner” while reading The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy. The setup is simple: meet with a partner for 30 minutes every week, talk through the past week’s wins, failures, struggles, and realizations, ask for feedback, and hold
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