AI & Implementation
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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…
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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.…
AI & Implementation · 4 min -
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 -
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 -
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…