Notes
Working notes
Short essays on building Billingz, operating from scale, designing with restraint, and finding the product moment. Updated when there's something worth saying.
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Jun 2026
How to manage your finances as a freelancer (without becoming an accountant).
A practical system for tracking income, expenses, taxes, cash flow, and runway. No spreadsheets. No accountant on retainer. Just the working method.
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Jun 2026
AI is becoming infrastructure.
The next decade will not be won by the loudest AI announcements. It will be won by the platforms that turn intelligence into quiet operational clarity.
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May 2026
On the book I’m writing.
Eighteen years inside rooms I did not understand at first and then understood too well. The Two Suits is the book I started the morning after.
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May 2026
The document trap: why invoicing software keeps missing the real problem.
Sending invoices stopped being hard a decade ago. The category solved the wrong problem and never moved on. The real problem is position.
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Apr 2026
The product moment we're chasing: "I finally get it."
Five words that decide whether anyone keeps using your software. They're harder to engineer than they sound, and most products never produce them.
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Mar 2026
Why visibility beats accounting for a one-person business.
Freelancers don't need better books. They need to see what's real, what changed, and what's about to hit them. That's a different product, with a different shape.
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Feb 2026
What scale taught me that startups should ignore.
The reflexes that work when you're running thousands of people across regions are the exact reflexes that kill an early product. Forgetting them on purpose.
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