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Duncan Davidson

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The personal website of Duncan Davidson: a hub for writing, experiments, durable notes, and thinking about what a personal site can be in the age of AI.

Essays / personalGeneral

’15’20’25
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53 from 1 Aug 2011 to 1 Sep 2026
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monthly (10 in the last year)
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personal blog
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2026 5

  1. Coding agents love decision records
  2. On technology
  3. A home for personal context
  4. The job changed
  5. What is a personal website in the age of AI?

2025 12

  1. Hello, Webflow — Duncan Davidson
  2. Beyond disagree and commit — Duncan Davidson
  3. Scotland in October
  4. On photography
  5. Sony RX1R III vs Leica Q3
  6. Oakland City Hall at sunrise
  7. Summer funemployment — Duncan Davidson
  8. Serifos Chora
  9. A free agent again, for now — Duncan Davidson
  10. AI thinks really fast, so think slow — Duncan Davidson
  11. The art of saying no — Duncan Davidson
  12. Power reveals — Duncan Davidson

2023 6

  1. Travel — Duncan Davidson
  2. Where are you from? — Duncan Davidson
  3. The simplicity I look for — Duncan Davidson
  4. Truth and lies — Duncan Davidson
  5. Istanbul airport on Victory Day — Duncan Davidson
  6. ChatGPT Pretend — Duncan Davidson

2022 1

  1. On Wunderlist — Duncan Davidson

2021 6

  1. Hello Shopify! — Duncan Davidson
  2. Preparing to be a technical advisor — Duncan Davidson
  3. The cost of startup cloud credits — Duncan Davidson
  4. The case of aaaabbbcca — Duncan Davidson
  5. Leaving Microsoft — Duncan Davidson
  6. Code interviews and ego fails — Duncan Davidson

2020 4

  1. Apple’s M1 arrives — Duncan Davidson
  2. How do I work best? — Duncan Davidson
  3. The horizon — Duncan Davidson
  4. Microsoft’s net zero — Duncan Davidson

2019 5

  1. How (not) to destroy an aspirational OKR — Duncan Davidson
  2. On David’s Windows experiment — Duncan Davidson
  3. Apple’s WWDC mojo shows back up — Duncan Davidson
  4. Languid — Duncan Davidson
  5. Anti-trust discomfort — Duncan Davidson

2018 5

  1. My Empathy Wobble — Duncan Davidson
  2. It’s not really about immigration, is it? — Duncan Davidson
  3. Jakarta, Eh? — Duncan Davidson
  4. Four Months Later — Duncan Davidson
  5. Health — Duncan Davidson

2017 1

  1. Lucky — Duncan Davidson

2015 3

  1. On Depression — Duncan Davidson
  2. Coping with jet lag — Duncan Davidson
  3. The tragedy of the HP B9180 printer — Duncan Davidson

2014 3

  1. Saving our bacon with evil cucumbers — Duncan Davidson
  2. On being an expat right now — Duncan Davidson
  3. When servers bleed — Duncan Davidson

2013 1

  1. Sony DSC-RX1 — Duncan Davidson

2011 1

  1. About Tack Sharp — Duncan Davidson