Writing
Notes on building
for scrutiny.
Operating standards, platform leverage, and launch discipline, drawn from building federal contracting and governed AI. Declarative, first-party, and dated.
- 01 Operating standards
My Most Expensive Mistake Had Nothing to Do With Code
The failure that became the operating standard for everything since.
- 02 Team design
Surface Area, Not Headcount
Why a small team that ships beats a large team that coordinates.
- 03 Product strategy
Three Questions Before Any Yes
A greenlight framework for a company that could build almost anything.
- 04 Launch discipline
The Cuts Are the Strategy
What you leave out of the first version is the plan, not a compromise.
- 05 Platform leverage
Five Products, Sixty Days, One Spine
How a small team ships a portfolio without drowning in it.
- 06 Company structure
One Parent, Two Disciplines
Why Viceroy NM and Trunnion AI are built as one company with two crafts.
- 07 Operations
The Big Three Behind Late Deliveries
Almost everything late traces back to process, capacity, or incentives.