Worth solving

How to find problems
worth solving.

One problem a week, taken apart the same way every time: the tell, the check, the bar, and what shipped. The method is the thing you take away, not the story.

The method

Every entry runs the same four beats.

  1. 01

    The tell

    The thing you noticed. Usually small, usually something you almost explained away.

  2. 02

    The check

    Whether anyone else has it. A problem that is only yours is a preference.

  3. 03

    The bar

    What a real answer would have to clear — and why the obvious ones do not.

  4. 04

    What shipped

    The thing built, and whether it actually cleared the bar.

The first one

Worth Solving

  1. 01

    Why you don't understand what your AI agent just built

    AI coding agents made everyone faster at writing code and nobody faster at understanding it.