Para sa akin mga kababayan: step up, show up
The talent is there. The opportunity is there. What's missing sometimes is the willingness to step through the door.
An AI agent is my entire IT department
I'm developing three businesses with no IT staff. An open-source AI agent handles my email, my servers, my DNS, my infrastructure, and half the decisions I used to lose sleep over. This is what that actually looks like.
Control of your codebase is an illusion
Every engineering leader has said it: 'if we had more time to test, review, and define requirements, we wouldn't have these production issues.' AI doesn't change that problem. It changes the economics of solving it.
AI should never be the reason you're laying off people
Over 100,000 employees were impacted by AI-attributed layoffs in 2025. In most cases, AI is either the excuse, the misunderstanding, or the tell that imagination ran out.
9 Tunnels
When I was six years old, my father taught me to count tunnels on the drive from Yokohama to Yokosuka. It changed how I see every journey since.
The secret of my success
Someone believed in me when I didn't believe in myself. Specific, genuine positive feedback changed the trajectory of my career.
Working with global teams: top 10 rules
18 years of managing offshore teams distilled into ten rules. They apply to any team, but they matter most when distance amplifies every mistake.