By Edo Segal
The muscle I depend on most has no name in the technology industry.
I don't mean creativity. I don't mean vision. I don't mean the ability to see around corners or ship under pressure. I mean the thing underneath all of those — the thing that decides which of my capabilities to deploy, in what order, at what intensity, and toward what end. The conductor, not the orchestra.
I spent the most intense months of my professional life building with Claude, and I celebrated the results. Twenty-fold productivity multipliers. A product built in thirty days that should have taken six months. A book drafted on a transatlantic flight. I measured output. I measured speed. I measured the collapse of the imagination-to-artifact ratio.
I did not measure
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