SEP 272026
Practice
You Can't Put the Stone Back: What Flintknapping Taught Me About Building for Survivors
Five mistakes at the stone, and what each one taught me about building tools for people whose safety depends on getting it right.
5 MIN
WRITING / BLOGNOTES FROM THE WORK
Notes from building software around consequential work.
Writing about software, AI, human systems, and the practical decisions that shape tools people can understand, evaluate, and own.
Some posts explain how products take shape. Others examine context, tradeoffs, safeguards, evidence, and handoff.
Evidence
Context first
Build notes
Human judgment
Safety boundaries
Handoff
Featured Writing
01/Human systems
What Anthropology Taught Me About Building Technology
My anthropology degree turned out to be surprisingly good preparation for building software.
SEP 20266 MIN READRyan Thomas
Latest Writing
Dispatches from production and practice
SEP 272026
Human systems
What Teaching Taught Me About Building Technology
Teaching prepared me for this more than I understood at the time.
5 MIN