I rebuilt my website from scratch because it looked like a resume. That was the problem.

I rebuilt my website from scratch this year, and the reason was simple: it looked like a resume. A prettier one, with better fonts, but still a list of claims you had to take on faith.

A resume asks you to trust. That is its entire mechanism. Sixteen years of experience, trust me. Led a team, trust me. Shipped at scale, trust me. Every line is an assertion with no way to check it, which is why everyone inflates them and why nobody fully believes them.

Proof of work flips that. Instead of asserting, you show the thing and let the reader check it themselves. A production system they can read about in detail. A postmortem with the actual timeline. An architecture decision with the tradeoffs written down, including the ones that aged badly.

So the rebuilt site is organized around artifacts, not adjectives. The proof section walks through a real production harness, how work gets framed, built, verified, and shipped, with a human approval gate in the middle. The work section shows live products with the decisions narrated. Nothing on the site asks you to trust me. It asks you to look.

This matters more now, not less. AI has made polished claims free to generate. Anyone can produce a beautiful resume and a confident cover letter in thirty seconds. The one thing that stays expensive is a body of checkable work, because you cannot generate a production system that has been running for a year.

If you are hiring: the candidates worth your time are the ones who hand you something you can verify. If you are a candidate: build the thing that lets them.