The payment happened once. Why is it in your data twice?
Retries, late events and reversals are normal. Here’s how to keep one financial action from becoming two—and still preserve the history.
Field notes
Things I’m
exploring.
Practical field notes on using AI, making product decisions, understanding data, and noticing the invisible structures behind everyday experiences.
Agent orchestration: supervisors, specialists & learning loops
How a supervisor coordinates micro-agents, a validator checks evidence, and evals and feedback improve the system.
Use AI to challenge your thinking—not just finish your sentence
A five-prompt workflow for finding weak assumptions before they become expensive decisions.
A metric can improve while the product gets worse
How to pair a success metric with downstream quality and unintended-harm guardrails.
The queue at your coffee shop is telling you where the bottleneck lives
A practical way to map throughput, constraints, and failure using an ordinary morning ritual.
Visibility is infrastructure, not vanity
A tiny practice for making valuable work legible without becoming performative.
Your closet has an inventory problem
What utilization, optionality, and feedback loops can teach us about buying fewer, better things.