Meditations on Tech

A Day Without Equals

I can spend an entire afternoon in conversation without having to care what anyone else wants.

Oct 16 • Greg Ceccarelli

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Keep the Gauges

Software that outlives its current implementation

Oct 9 • Greg Ceccarelli

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You Need to Be More Afraid of Wasting Your Life Than Embarrassing Yourself

“You need to be more afraid of wasting your life than embarrassing yourself.”

Oct 2 • Greg Ceccarelli

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September 2026

Nothing Is Boring Anymore

I just drove five and a half hours from D.C.

Sep 25 • Greg Ceccarelli

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Building a software factory ain’t hard

There is a sense in stories going around the interwebz that a software factory (agents building your software while you do something else) is a big…

Sep 18 • Greg Ceccarelli

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AI Doom?

Undoubtedly you’ve heard about the ex-Anthropic Researcher Jacob Coxon who resigned because frontier labs are not acting responsibility in the face of…

Sep 11 • Greg Ceccarelli

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We Lose Alibis

Most of us have something we keep saying we are going to do.

Sep 4 • Greg Ceccarelli

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August 2026

Epistemic Loneliness

I heard the term epistemic loneliness for the first time this week and immediately knew the feeling it described.

Aug 28 • Greg Ceccarelli

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The Fire Makes Its Own Weather

A short story about certainty

Aug 21 • Greg Ceccarelli

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The Machine Wasn't There Afterward

Being wrong is still one of the best mechanisms by which you become less wrong

Aug 14 • Greg Ceccarelli

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The Margin Panic Is a Myth

SaaS never really had the magical gross margins some are mourning

Aug 7 • Greg Ceccarelli

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July 2026

Wait, WTF are courses for?

Practicing judgment still matters (a lot)

Jul 31 • Greg Ceccarelli

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