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The Deadly Embrace
The Hidden Structure of Gridlock
Jul 23
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Matt Trifiro
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Correct Parts, Broken Whole
Why race conditions prove that individual correctness isn't enough
Jul 15
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Matt Trifiro
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An Ode to Idempotency
The elevator button knows something you don't.
Jul 14
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Matt Trifiro
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The Anatomy of the Appetizer: Why the Buffalo Wing Is an Economic Illusion
How the cheapest, most worthless cut of chicken became a delicacy and what it reveals about every industry's hidden surplus.
Jul 9
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Matt Trifiro
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AI is an Honesty Machine
It doesn’t make your thinking better. It reveals the quality of what you bring to it.
Jul 4
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Matt Trifiro
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June 2026
Your Anxiety Is Output
Stop treating dread as a verdict and start tracing the program that produced it.
Jun 30
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Matt Trifiro
Context-Switched to Death
Why attention feels impossible now, and the tested habits that bring it back.
Jun 24
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Matt Trifiro
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Two Kinds of Better
The hidden difference between making something better and making the right thing.
Jun 23
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Matt Trifiro
The Fluency Window
The advantage was never a single trick; it’s how fast you can find the next one, use it, and let it go.
Jun 18
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Matt Trifiro
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The Disease of Distance
Aaron Levie calls it AI psychosis. It's really a measurement error you catch by standing too far from the work.
Jun 16
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Matt Trifiro
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The Necessity of Disagreement
Steve Jobs was successful because he acted as a violent, relentless counter force to order.
Jun 14
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Matt Trifiro
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Racing the Beam, Trusting the Machine
I learned to program by counting.
Jun 11
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Matt Trifiro
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