technology-and-strategy
How to Reign In Your Coding Agent
Everyone’s hyped about AI coding agents. Big tech says they’re replacing engineers. Solo founders claim they’ve built entire startups with a prompt. But if you’ve tried to use one on a real project, you’ve probably realized: it’s messy. This post explores how to make it less so - by giving your agent just enough structure to be useful.
What We’re Rethinking in the Age of AI: Product, Workflow, and Scale
When we started Midstay in 2021, we were building a B2C social app for digital nomads and remote workers. Like many early-stage startups, we kept our tech stack lean and focused on moving fast. Our workflow was fairly pragmatic and conventional: Figma for design, Notion for planning, Heroku for deployment, and Tailwind with Flowbite to build our Ruby on Rails UIs quickly. It worked well, and for a team of our size, we were reasonably productive.
personal-growth
What Happens When You Don’t Own Your Life—And When You Finally Do
For as long as I can remember, I’ve struggled to put myself out there and express myself in public. This has been the case in my personal life, e.g. when being around a lot of people, I’ve tended to mute myself and let others take the stage. However, it has severely affected my professional life too. While I know I have a strong background and capacity, I haven’t been able to take advantage of it due to my lack of self-confidence and public presence. The last year or two, I’ve come to some important realizations around where this behavior comes from, and this has finally started to set me on a new course. These realizations are also what has given birth to this blog, which previously would have been unthinkable.
entrepreneurship
Start with Traffic, Not a Product: A Smarter Way to Build?
After years of focusing solely on my main business Midstay, I recently started exploring some side projects again. Partly to hedge my current business, but also to test new ideas, tools, and services within the AI space.
remote-lifestyle
The Burnout of the Ambitious Nomad
This weekend I’ve been sensing a burnout coming. It happens every other month if I take too much on, and at the same time have unforeseen stressful events coming up. This time it started building up while I was travelling to Bali. It made me think about digital nomadism, as I was working full time on the trip. Thankfully, I’ve gotten a lot better at responding to this when it comes up, and hopefully I will manage this time as well.