Writing at the intersection of technology, business and strategy.
Random Hitches is where I think out loud about the forces that shape which products win — the quiet ecosystem shifts, the platform incentives, and the behavior of the people actually using the thing.
I've spent my career close to the seam where technology strategy meets the market — the place where a product decision is really a business decision wearing an engineering costume. This blog is my notebook for working those problems out in public.
The throughline across everything here is user behavior and ecosystem shifts. Most big platform stories look, in hindsight, like they were about a single feature or a single launch. They almost never are. They're about how incentives realign, how a new default changes what millions of people do without thinking, and how the ground moves under incumbents who were sure they'd already won.
What you'll find here
Long-form essays, published when I have something worth saying rather than on a schedule. Some are about business models — how Android's economics became legible, why cloud marketplaces are a channel and not a strategy. Others are about the technology itself and what it signals. All of them try to get past the headline to the mechanism underneath.
Get in touch
I'm always happy to hear from readers, founders, and anyone thinking about the same questions. The fastest way to reach me is email, or find me on Twitter, GitHub, and LinkedIn.