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Tutorials and engineering essays, reflections on stoicism, and notes from what I'm reading. Thinking out loud about the craft of building.

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JUN 19, 2025 · 3 min read

Prompt Engineering: Text Summarization

In an era where market-research PDFs land on desks faster than you can finish a ristretto, prompt-engineered text-summarisation lets analysts trade hours of CTRL-F drudgery for instant, five-sentence clarity on how AI adoption and ramped-up privacy regulation are reshaping customer behaviour.

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ESSAYJUN 18

You can ship in weeks, but can you survive the launch?

We had three weeks to build an MVP. No extensions, no excuses. Ambitious? Absolutely. Risky? Of course. But this wasn’t our first rodeo.

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ESSAYJUN 07

The Myth of the Perfect System

Every engineer wants to build a perfect system. Every founder knows that’s the fastest way to stall a business. Perfection is seductive - until it kills your timeline, your budget, and your momentum.

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