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  • Jul 29

    The Depreciating Asset

    Models Are the Depreciating Asset. The Interface Is the Moat. In 2023, the thing you needed a frontier cloud model to do…

    AI & Implementation, Building in Public · 6 min
  • Jul 21

    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.…

    AI & Implementation · 4 min
  • Jul 07

    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…

    AI & Implementation · 3 min
  • May 26

    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…

    AI & Implementation · 7 min
  • May 11

    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…

    AI & Implementation, Building in Public · 8 min
  • Apr 27

    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…

    AI & Implementation · 4 min
  • Apr 13

    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…

    AI & Implementation · 3 min
  • Mar 24

    “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…

    AI & Implementation, Engineering Leadership · 4 min
  • Mar 17

    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…

    AI & Implementation, Engineering Leadership · 5 min
  • Mar 10

    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…

    AI & Implementation, Engineering Leadership · 4 min
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