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alejandro.pe Alejandro Garcia Salas's personal site at alejandro.pe — long-form retrospectives on product, design, and engineering from a founding-engineer career
Early-stage reality vs the retold version "Early Notion" and "early Figma" stories skip the messy parts; what early actually looks like is a sequence of bets that mostly don't work, made by people who are mostly uncertain
Reps as pattern recognition What second-time founders actually have isn't lessons explicitly learned but accumulated pattern recognition that makes them faster — petri-dish process over single-idea conviction
Sail & Muddy — Get Your Reps Alejandro Garcia Salas's retrospective on four years building a multiplayer browser — positioning, dogfooding traps, "best polished version" strategy, and reps as the only way to learn
The Vanished Genius CTO: Lee Holloway, Part 1 (Urabe) Urabe's biography of Cloudflare co-founder Lee Holloway, from Project Honey Pot to the frontotemporal dementia that ended his career