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Category: AI & Implementation
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I Gave My Agents a Memory That Can’t Leak
I run Claude Code and Pi across everything I build. They’re good, but they also forget everything the moment a session ends. Every project decision, every dead end…
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The Org Chart Is the Product
For most of my career I believed I was building products but looking back, I was mostly building org charts. Every real scaling problem I hit — Weedmaps…
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Polymorphic Cultures: One Year In
I’ve been saying “polymorphic cultures” for a year and I’ve never actually written down what I mean by it. The term has shown up in podcast interviews, LinkedIn…
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The Marginal Return of Intelligence (And the Marginal Return to It)
One week ago I announced Grazier Ventures and Aqen.ai. Since then I’ve been asked a version of the same question about a dozen times: how are you actually going…
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One-Person Companies Are a Forcing Function, Not a Fad
Every few months someone posts a screenshot of a one-person company doing a million dollars a year. The replies split clean in half. One side calls it the…
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The Lowe’s Tool Shelf Problem
Or: why knowing every new AI tool is the wrong flex I was at Lowe’s last weekend staring at the oscillating multi-tool wall. Fourteen variants. Corded, cordless, brushless,…
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“Tokenmaxxing” Is Lines-of-Code Thinking for the Agentic Era
Silicon Valley has a new competitive sport, and it’s exactly the mistake you think it is. The New York Times reported last week that engineers at Meta, OpenAI,…
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Your AI Notetaker Is the Biggest Security Decision You’re Not Making
Every engineering leader I know is running at least one AI meeting recorder. Fathom, Otter, Fireflies, Granola — they show up in your Zoom call, they transcribe everything,…
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Minutes Added To Workforce
Every company I’ve talked to in the last two quarters is asking the same question about AI: what’s the ROI? The instinct is to measure AI value in cost…
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Block Just Cut 3,500 Jobs. You’re Reading It Wrong.
Jack Dorsey announced this week that Block is cutting roughly 3,500 people — about 40% of its workforce. The stock has been sliding for years. The headlines are…