# Occasional Observations > Sporadic collection & connection of dots. ## Recent Posts - [We can't escape Conway's Law](https://paragraph.com/@oo/we-cant-escape-conways-law): How communication shapes the experience - [Thoughts on "How to Build a Car"](https://paragraph.com/@oo/thoughts-on-how-to-build-a-car) - [Striving](https://paragraph.com/@oo/striving): Runners & wrappers - [Stability compounds agility](https://paragraph.com/@oo/stability-compounds-agility) - [Same ball, different games](https://paragraph.com/@oo/same-ball-different-games) - [Innovation is scaled ingenuity](https://paragraph.com/@oo/innovation-is-scaled-ingenuity): A practical working definition that separates theater from progress - [Mercedes & Microsoft ](https://paragraph.com/@oo/mercedes-and-microsoft): "Let's put that in the parking lot" - [We don't need more founders](https://paragraph.com/@oo/we-dont-need-more-founders): Building over founding - [Scapegoating-as-a-Service](https://paragraph.com/@oo/scapegoating-as-a-service): The Hot New Thing™ Hype Cycle - [Necessary destruction](https://paragraph.com/@oo/necessary-destruction): Do groundskeepers despise divots? - [Just dominant enough](https://paragraph.com/@oo/just-dominant-enough): On the intriguing subtext of Meta's antitrust deck - [Shoes, Spiders, & Cities ](https://paragraph.com/@oo/mental-models): Miscellaneous mental models - [Implications of AI-enabled software](https://paragraph.com/@oo/implications-of-ai-enabled-software): Collecting implications & holding them lightly - [An Intelligence Age](https://paragraph.com/@oo/an-intelligence-age): Miscellaneous thoughts on an ambiguous manifesto - [Where does work happen?](https://paragraph.com/@oo/where-does-work-happen): What *is* work, anyway? - [Intel didn't see the potential of OpenAI ](https://paragraph.com/@oo/intel-didnt-see-the-potential-of-openai): ...and you probably didn't either. - [Google Who?](https://paragraph.com/@oo/google-who) - [Hobbies as Journeys](https://paragraph.com/@oo/hobbies-as-journeys): An experimental approach to introducing multidimensional processes - [AI Can't Fix Your Organizational Overhead](https://paragraph.com/@oo/ai-cant-fix-your-organizational-overhead): Nor can it make your company viable - [The Hazard of User Focus](https://paragraph.com/@oo/the-hazard-of-user-focus): Don't let your users distract you ## Blog Information - [Homepage](https://paragraph.com/@oo/): Main blog page - [RSS Feed](https://api.paragraph.com/blogs/rss/@oo): Subscribe to updates - [Twitter](https://twitter.com/thehilker): Follow on Twitter - [Farcaster](https://farcaster.xyz/trh): Follow on Farcaster ## Optional - [All Posts](https://paragraph.com/@oo/): Complete post archive - [Sitemap](https://paragraph.com/@oo/sitemap-index.xml): XML sitemap for crawlers