Long-form writing on AI, design leadership, and founding a company.https://chad-j.com/https://chad-j.com/notes/building-a-playground-for-ai-native-learning/https://chad-j.com/notes/building-a-playground-for-ai-native-learning/Bixel is where I build my own crawlers, bots and LLM data extraction. Here is what is in it, what broke, and what it taught me.Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://chad-j.com/notes/getting-a-bot-verified-by-cloudflare/https://chad-j.com/notes/getting-a-bot-verified-by-cloudflare/What Cloudflare's Verified Bots program is, what it took for a one-person crawler to get in, and what it says about bot and human traffic on the web.Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://chad-j.com/notes/headless-makes-research-the-design-work/https://chad-j.com/notes/headless-makes-research-the-design-work/If customers reach your product through an agent instead of your interface, the design that matters is how well you understand what they were trying to do.Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://chad-j.com/notes/an-agent-is-a-job-description/https://chad-j.com/notes/an-agent-is-a-job-description/The hardest part of building an agent is the part companies have always been bad at, which is writing down what the job actually is.Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://chad-j.com/notes/when-the-screen-is-optional/https://chad-j.com/notes/when-the-screen-is-optional/The cost of producing an interface is falling toward zero. The value of knowing which one to produce is not.Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://chad-j.com/notes/what-selling-a-company-taught-me-about-design/https://chad-j.com/notes/what-selling-a-company-taught-me-about-design/Running Digs changed what I think a design leader is for. Most of it had nothing to do with design.Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://chad-j.com/notes/designing-next-to-a-founder/https://chad-j.com/notes/designing-next-to-a-founder/The closer design sits to the person with the vision, the faster it moves and the more it has to translate.Thu, 09 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT