Alex Caza

I used to reach for music to help me process things or get into flow.

I'm bullish on AI, but I also feel this pull to leave tech behind entirely, and I've been struggling to figure out why.

Eight years of daily Apple Watch wear taught me to trust data over my own body.

Why do so many of us dream about giving up desk jobs for something tangible?

I spent years dismissing LLMs.

I've been receiving a surprising amount of inbound questions about Firstbloom lately.

In my experience, choosing between top-down or bottom-up org structures isn't enough.

I wanted to take a step back at the end of 2024 and go over my wins, and think about how I'd like to change in 2025.

A reflection on what the next type of business I'm going to attempt is, and what guardrails I'll put in place to save my mental health.

An essay that explores the future of monetizing open source, why I think venture capital should get into the space more, and how I believe the future will be led by open source-first companies.

After switching to Wezterm from iTerm2, I greatly missed iTermocil.

The AI movement is an interesting one.

A reflection on what it means to be attached to your work, and how being 100% attached to things can actually be detrimental to the outcomes you seek and the person you want to be.

I've journalled on and off for ~8 years, and nothing has been as sticky as the format I call Daily Postmortems.

The concept of a Product Engineer is new, emerging in the last 2-4 years.

I've written about my struggles with mental health a few times, and I've posted on Threads about how my anxiety and panic disorder has been way more manageable the last few months.

A short tale about moving my small but minorly popular javascript library called export-to-csv to Bun and heavily refactoring it after many years.

Use Dropshare, Backblaze and Cloudflare to host your own screenshot and screen recording setup, with custom URL.

My mental model for thinking about emotional states, and the effects of medication and mindfulness on them.

The past two weeks have been about me reconnecting with my body in various ways.

For the last 472 days, I’ve meditated on average for 15 minutes.

Over the last few days, I’ve been thinking about thinking.

I've been recovering from a bad burnout.

Give yourself permission to do things out of order.

After a day of productivity guilt and anxiety, I tried to understand how Flow works for me.

Finding the right non-fiction is a challenge for me, and with my backlog of books overflowing, it's a little overwhelming.

I’m not someone who’s great at dealing with a lot of inbound communication.

During our user observations, I started noticing a pattern between the build up to curiosity and confusion.

We’ve been doing a lot of user observations and testing at Fluent this past month and it's reminded us of an important lesson in product.

I set out to create something simple that works well enough for me, without over complicating my life with layers of processes I won’t stick to.

A personal journal entry turned public.

Part of my resolutions for the new year is to nourish my spirit by creating more, and consuming less.

After a tough year, I'm finally finding a sense of clarity for what I want to do, who I want to become and how I want to do it.

More than ever before, people care about where their food is coming from and who was behind producing it.

With the end of the decade quickly approaching, I’ve spent some time reflecting on the last 10 years.

Reading Paul Graham’s essay on accidental moderates made me wonder: can anyone truly think for themselves?