THE OPERATING SYSTEM

Operating system

Explore five notes on infrastructure, agents, checkout, traffic and portfolio decisions.

OPERATING NOTE 1

Infrastructure

Why the entire portfolio runs on a single rented machine, and why boring infrastructure is a competitive advantage.

OPERATING NOTE 2

Agents

How one person ships fifty products with AI coding agents — and the production outages it took to learn the rules.

OPERATING NOTE 3

Checkout

Payments wisdom from fifty checkouts: what prices work, what breaks silently, and why the buy button ships first.

OPERATING NOTE 4

Traffic

SEO sprints, programmatic page factories, one whale keyword, and the liberating math of pages that get zero clicks.

OPERATING NOTE 5

Portfolio decisions

Portfolio triage, clone hygiene, the discipline of honest status labels, and why most of your products should be allowed to die.

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