Archive - Hard Stuff

The Easy Way In

I'd been building things for ten years. The hard part was that almost nobody could read what I'd built.

Jun 15 • Nicholas Ferguson

May 2026

Why Your Company Can't Ship at Inference Speed

Implementation stopped being the bottleneck. Most companies were structured against the wrong constraint a decade ago.

May 10 • Nicholas Ferguson

#nojs-banner { position: fixed; bottom: 0; left: 0; padding: 16px 16px 16px 32px; width: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; background: red; color: white; font-family: -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px; } #nojs-banner a { color: inherit; text-decoration: underline; } This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. Please turn on JavaScript or unblock scripts