Designing Products, Teams, and Capital for Compounding Leverage

Product & Systems Architect focused on 0→1 systems, durable growth, and structured execution.

Operating Principles

Architecture Over Activity

Most operators optimize for visible output. The strongest technical leaders optimize for structure. Features ship. Architecture compounds.

Systems Create Leverage

Leverage is not intensity. Leverage is a well-designed system producing outcomes without constant intervention.

Leadership Is Applied Systems Design

Leadership is not personality. It is the ability to design environments where the right behaviors emerge naturally.

Design for Durability, Not Applause

Short-term optimization often undermines long-term strength. Durability compounds. Noise fades.

How I Think About Systems

I approach products, leadership, and capital the same way I approach software: as systems to design, optimize, and compound.

Product Architecture

Designing MVPs with structural integrity. Avoiding fragility through constraint design and architectural thinking.

Technical Leadership

Scaling engineering teams without scaling chaos. Building organizational leverage through incentive design and decision frameworks.

Compounding Strategy

Long-term positioning over short-term wins. Building durable advantage through systematic leverage.

Selected Essays

anchor Scaling Engineering Without Increasing Complexity

Scaling Engineering Teams Without Scaling Chaos

Why growth increases organizational debt, and how to design ownership architecture that scales without creating bottlenecks.

Strategic Conversations

For founders, engineering leaders, and operators building durable systems.

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