the writing
Notes from the workbench.
Essays and field notes on jazz, medicine, machines, and the strange discipline of building software companies from a veterinary clinic.
The receipts
Eight months in, as of August 12. Twenty repositories, five thousand commits, one clinical platform, one agent harness, one folding engine. Everything I've built since the first commit of my life, in order, with the numbers.
Four days in December
December 4, 2025, 6:35 PM: my first commit, written with zero coding experience. Four days later, 143 commits. The honest numbers of that week, and what they do and don't prove.
The weight of the record
Being present with the patient is the stimulating part. What breaks you is what's left over. On documentation burnout, and the December I started building.
Time is a diagnostic
The hardest thing to sell a worried owner is sometimes a plan that starts with waiting. On the grey zone, bounded waiting, and safety nets with dates on them.