Casey writes.

This is the writing of Casey Romkes, a product and technology leader in Berlin: a growing archive of essays, reflections, and field notes on AI adoption, technology, leadership, and the craft of building. Pieces run in English, with a few in Dutch and German, and include the recurring newsletter The Brief Pause. They are set chronologically, with no algorithm deciding what you see.

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Recent writings

Of Pets and Cattle

Some machines get names, some get numbers. On pets, cattle, and why a name is what lets a project be missed when it dies.

We built the agent, then we deleted it

Moving data you can't afford to lose

From "wouldn't F1 be fun?" to a buildable change

The Quiet Press: a newspaper that turns itself off

Imaginary friends, AI agents, and who’s really steering.

Latest notes, dispatches, and quick writes

Earlier Issues

Workbench

Draining a server with the lights on

Reflection

Tuesday Afternoon

Note

The little door: 48 hours from hunch to heartbeat

Workbench

Blueprint: Migrating a 70-Device Zigbee Network to a New Coordinator Stack — Without Re-Pairing

Note

From "anything we can use?" to v1.0.0 in a day

Reflection

The Thing That Wasn't Supposed to Move Me

Blogpost

Your data is the asset. The agent is the excuse.

Reflection

The Exoskeleton Doesn't Rest

Blogpost

The graveyard is the point

Workbench

An EPUB, via email.

Note

Five books, six lines

Techfeed

Stripe Link is the agent-commerce primitive. The question is who pays for the rest.

Blogpost

The Numbers Behind the Floor Moving

Blogpost

A few hundred lines that mattered

Blogpost

Die paar hundert Zeilen, auf die es ankam

Note

WTF is Triage

Reflection

Addicted to the Output, Not the Outcome

Blogpost

The $40,000 Question

Blogpost

You Already Know What to Build

Blogpost

The Trillion-Dollar Reckoning