Hello, I am Alex

Welcome to my corner of the internet. It's good to have you here!

I write about software, careers, books, and the useful edges of everyday life.

This rebuild is becoming a digital garden and lab: part writing archive, part experiments shelf, part personal tooling surface.

Recent writing

Why Some Designs Keep Their SignalRolls-Royce, Ferrari, classic clothing, platform engineering, and the slow variables underneath taste.6 min read Not Losing Work Context as a Staff EngineerNotes on using Claude Code, launchd, and an Obsidian vault as a work Chief of Staff.10 min read I Redesigned My Website Using CodexNotes on rebuilding alex.social through conversation, prototypes, screenshots, and a lot of small corrections.6 min read What If We're Measuring AI Progress Wrong?Notes after watching the interview with Ilya Sutskever by Dwarkesh Patel8 min read How Big Things Get Done by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan GardnerI read "How Big Things Get Done" by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner.2 min read