AI & ML

Truthful AI Under Pressure: What Kradle.AI Might Reveal About Fable 5

Do you know what many neurodivergent people have deeply rooted in them? A relationship with truth and justice. In psychology, this phenomenon is often…

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The Developer's Guide to Sustainable Productivity: Tools, Techniques, and Mental Models The Developer's Guide to Sustainable Productivity: Tools, Tech…

Defining Autism: The Shadow and the Object

When I attend tech conferences, people usually know me — if they do — for my work on Cilium and my labs. That started changing recently. At the last t…

I built an AI for relationships — here's why nobody else has

Every developer I know has built something for themselves. A productivity tool. A habit tracker. A personal finance app. An AI that makes them smarter…

Return to the Planet of the Autistics

Field journal of Dr. E. Rempel, Department of Minority Neurological Studies, University of New Carthage (A work of fiction. "Allism" is a real term us…

Your app can save someone from having a panic attack (a real-life story)

As I'm observing engineers, I notice that most of them share the same characteristic: unending loads of curiosity. You, software developers, are deepl…

Your What Keeps Me Going!

This specific undertaking is not fundamentally burdensome in terms of labor; however, this endeavor serves as the crucial support for my unwavering co…

The problem with my memory and why I stopped trusting myself to remember things

I work on a computer all day. Multiple projects, lots of switching, constant interruptions. A while back I noticed I was losing track of my own work. …

I just shipped a meditation feature. Here's exactly where I used AI — and where I didn't.

Yoga Wake Up has had guided meditation for years. But this week we launched something new: Guided Silence — a meditation experience where I use my voi…

What Building an AI-Powered Mental Wellness Platform Taught Us About Human Behavior

When we started building Wellzy , we thought the biggest challenge would be the AI. We were wrong. The hardest part wasn't choosing models, designing …

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Some people start life with a map. Some start with a vehicle, while others start on a well-paved road. As for me... I am still busy figuring out where…

Abortion Rights Matter

Aidan Jones Abortion 29 May 2026 Abortion Rights Matter Nevaeh Crain should have lived to see her 21st birthday. Tragically, on October 29, 2023, she …

Why autism hasn't disappeared — a hypothesis

In the previous post , I described two survival systems: one oriented toward information, one toward social cohesion. The autistic information drive p…

How Tall Tales Got Designed (in Letters)

In January 2002 I dropped an envelope in the mail addressed to my brother Steve. Even in 2002, mailing a letter to a sibling was unusual — but these w…

Knowing Doesn't Mean Feeling (Bite-size Article)

Introduction - Knowing Doesn't Mean Feeling: Why Logic Fails to Stop Our Emotions When I feel like work is falling slightly behind, I find myself addi…

The Planning Fallacy: Why You Always Run Out of Time (And How to Fix It)

You've done this a hundred times. You look at your to-do list and think, "I can knock this out before lunch." Three tasks. Each one seems straightforw…

The Hidden Cost of Context Switching

For a long time, I thought productivity was about effort. Work harder. Focus more. Stay disciplined. Manage time better. Most productivity advice is b…

How Traveling Shaped My Mind and Helped Me Respect Other Cultures

Traveling is more than moving from one place to another. It is not only about seeing new places, taking pictures, or trying different foods. For me, t…

Debugging Human Hardware: A Developer’s Guide to Optimizing the Dopamine Loop

Fix your focus. A practical guide to debugging your brain's dopamine loops for developers.If you’ve ever found yourself staring at a broken block of c…

Not All Games Are Equal: The Real Difference Between a Trap and a Tool

If you game to decompress after work, the choice of game matters more than you think. Not all games decompress you. Some just swap one compulsive loop…

When Stress Disguises Itself as Rational Planning (Bite-size Article)

Introduction Hello. Today, I want to write a short article about something I recently noticed while working. This is partly a note to myself, and part…

Practical Tools for Stress Management

We've all been there - that moment when your heart starts racing, your palms get sweaty, and your mind begins spiraling. Whether it's a difficult emai…

Burnout Recovery Tips

Burnout Recovery That Doesn’t Feel Like “Being Motivated” Again If you’re burned out, you probably don’t need another pep talk. You need relief that’s…

Build Your Harness While You Wait

A few weeks ago, I sat down with a colleague for our weekly 1-1. He came in visibly exhausted — not from a late night debugging, not from an incident.…

[FOR SALE] Built a Mental Health / Therapy Management MVP in Flutter with backend

Built a mental health / therapy management MVP in Flutter — considering selling it Over the past months I built a project called PsyScore: a mental he…

Diagnosis Didn't Change My Leadership. Ownership Did.

I left a role in part because one cross-functional relationship kept overstimulating me and I did not have a framework to understand my own reaction p…

Are you unable to start anything because of overthinking?

Have you noticed that before you start anything, 10 questions come to your mind? “What will happen if I do this?”, “Can I do it?”, “What if I make a m…

Maybe I Should Just Be a 404 Page

What if you were an HTTP 404 page? A technical and philosophical deep-dive into boundaries, 100% uptime, and developer mental health. Includes a Pytho…

What’s Your Fear Score as a Developer?

Fear costs us everything. I once heard this quote, “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take,” and I really felt it in my career. When I look back, I…

Last when we were exiting the orbit I was so depressed Kai had to teach me scape velocity 🤕 Feeling same batted today!