Most of my tech stack just became a geopolitical risk
Most of my tech stack just became a geopolitical risk. I saw the US tariffs against countries that defend Denmark's sovereignty. My anxiety surged. Reality...
Nicolas Cava
Fractional CTO
I jumped into a problem I knew nothing about. 20% ready. 80% terrified.
Solved it in 4 hours flat.
No context.
No expertise.
Just a provided slide deck with pain points.
Here's how I turned chaos into clarity:
→ Scanned the deck fast
→ Leveraged only transferable skills from my career
→ Conceptualized the unknown to what I already knew
→ Learned a brand-new space from zero
Once I got a grasp of the problem, I moved quick:
→ Highlighted key parts of the PDF on my iPad
→ Took messy notes with questions straight on the deck
→ Built a draft plan in Apple Notes
That plan gave me:
1️⃣ Core problem + pain points
2️⃣ ROI opportunities from solving it
3️⃣ Tech-enabled solution ideas
4️⃣ Technical feasibility
5️⃣ Rabbit holes + risks
6️⃣ Resources required
7️⃣ Infrastructure dependencies
Then I went deeper.
Used Perplexity for research.
Built an implementation plan.
Estimated timeline with risk buffer.
All in 4 hours.
If I had more time?
✅ Cursor agents would already be building with my prompts
✅ Figma Make would be prototyping design
✅ I would be coding in parallel with my pre-built stack
I haven't felt that pure problem-solving flow in a long time.
Taking chaos → turning it into value.
Using nothing but transferable skills + AI.
Solving real pain points in record time.
This is what excites me most today.
Problems big enough to scare me.
Systems strong enough to solve them.
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