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Essays on music, code, ego, health, and the strange discipline of getting out of the way.
Featured · August 2026
How I Build Production Software by Directing AI
The engineering judgment behind AI-directed development — knowing what to build, spotting when the model gets it wrong, and shipping it to production anyway.
May 2026
The Demand to Be Fair
Fifty years of ‘it’s not fair,’ and what changed when he stopped keeping score.
May 2026
A Powerfully Lazy Man's Way to Better Health
How being too lazy to do it the hard way became a system for better health — and the seed of Flow Recovery.
May 2026
The Loudest Thing in the Room
Coming back to Nashville, falling in with Matt Combs, and learning to disappear into a track.
May 2026
It's Enough
A short meditation on contentment, presence, and the quiet discipline of having enough.
May 2026
The Day I Found Out I’d Been Playing Music Wrong for Thirty Years
On unlearning thirty years of technique — and what rhythm guitar taught him about ego and getting out of the way.
December 2025
Embracing the Paradox - How to Play Without Trying
Excerpts from his book — rhythm guitar as a philosophy of support and getting the ego out of the way.