May 28, 2026

I had a chance to reflect at the past half year we’ve been building the team and culture at Sycamore after a friend asked me what AI-native development actually feels like these days. I think my answer would have sounded absurd to me even a year ago: I spend a lot less time writing code, I spend a lot less time reviewing code line-by-line, and I feel more responsible for the software.

May 19, 2026

In February 2026, I moved to Palo Alto for six weeks to work in person with the Sycamore team. I plan on splitting my time between the Netherlands and California in the near future, and I wrote this blog post on the last day of my first trip as part of the founding team and Head of Product at Sycamore. The Commute as meditation 100 miles a day. A few hours in the car. 50 miles each way… the longest commute of my life, and somehow one of the most valuable parts of my day. M

March 31, 2026

On Halloween last year, my cofounder Carlo and I had a handshake deal with a pretty known AI company to sell FirstQuadrant, and for the first time in nearly a decade, I had nothing to build. I wrote about this in my Year of Discovery post: the plan was to sit with the discomfort. Not rush into the next thing, and figure out who I am when I’m not “cofounder of X”. As you’d expect, that lasted about six weeks. By December, I was restless.