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2026
Jun 03
Building is the most respectable way to procrastinate
There is a kind of work that feels exactly like progress and is, in fact, the most expensive way to avoid it. It ships, it has commits, and …
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Jun 03
Survival is a constraint, compounding is the objective
Reading is long-term. So is building something and putting it out. So is earning some cash first. When every option is defensible, judgment …
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Jun 03
Why building substitutes for progress: a first-principles analysis
The companion essay asserted that building disguises avoidance as progress. This one derives it — from five premises that are hard to deny — …
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