Ideas
Thoughts, frameworks, product sparks, and mental models worth keeping.
Hong Kong food guide: what to eat, where to stay, and 42 saved places
A tourist-friendly Hong Kong food map: where to stay, how the food clusters work, what to order, and the Google Maps list to save before landing.
Aphantasia: The Unseen Operating System
A plain-English field guide to minds that think without voluntary mental pictures — and why that is not broken imagination.
Build a Tiny Agent Studio
Lessons from making @howdy.notes: why one giant agent becomes context soup, and why useful AI work needs skills, feedback, randomness, and a half-code half-LLM production line.
GA4 Is Not a Snippet: Building an Owned GTM MCP Control Plane
The full field report: a rejected first architecture, staged Google OAuth, an owned MCP server, privacy-safe semantic events, guarded GTM publication, and the Preview-mode bug that nearly lied to us.
Relatability Is a Bad Contract
Why internet audiences reward ordinariness, resent escape, and mistake visibility for merit.
The View From Above: Modeling Organizational Headwind
A mathematical and visual simulation of how corporate hierarchy degrades ground truth before it reaches leadership.