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Explained at the kitchen table

I built a Rube Goldberg machine as a kid, and I still remember it clearly. It connects me to my dad, and it may be what pulled me toward engineering in the first place. Now my kids and I are rebuilding it, in wood this time, and re-imagining it with something digital wired in. Maybe they come away seeing technology as something you can build, not just something you use.

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TL;DR

Matt thinks out loud here about technology, mostly how teams decide what to build, fix and protect.

The first series argues that security gets better fastest when the teams that each hold part of the answer share it earlier. The newest piece, Clay first, chisel later, is about roughing out the whole thing before polishing the parts.

Every piece says how much AI helped, and the site changes in the open. The discussion happens on LinkedIn.

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AI score 2/4 me. Idea 1.5/2 · Words 0.5/2. AI drafted these from what's on the site; I haven't rewritten them yet

Updated October 13, 2026. A TL;DR for the whole site, by reader, is an idea by Matt at ctpo.io. Copy it freely, just link back.