Archive - Proof of Concept

Reflecting on the 200 series

Issue 300: A look back at the past 100 issues

May 31 • David Hoang

Staying creative during travel

Lean tools, hard constraints, better ideas

May 24 • David Hoang

Special moves and combos

Issue 298: Mastery starts with button mashing

May 17 • David Hoang

Escape from agentic loop

Issue 297: Human-in-the-Loop is the new doom scrolling

May 10 • David Hoang

Issue 296: The hand finds what the prompt misses

May 3 • David Hoang

April 2026

Design Systems are now Inference Systems

Issue 295: From prescriptive patterns to adaptive parameters

Apr 26 • David Hoang

The shape of leadership

Issue 294: Where do leaders spend their time now?

Apr 19 • David Hoang

The formlessness of AI agents

Issue 292: Finding the right vessel for new capabilities

Apr 12 • David Hoang

The protégé problem today

Issue 292: Knowledge flows downhill anymore

Apr 5 • David Hoang

March 2026

AI tokens are mana

Issue 291: Spend them like you mean it

Mar 29 • David Hoang

Product Design lessons from the MacBook Neo

Issue 290: Knowing what to cut is the hardest part of design

Mar 22 • David Hoang

Re-writing Tapestry for AI workflows

Issue 289: I shipped a production app, then blew it all up

Mar 15 • David Hoang

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