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Category: Building in Public
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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 ran in a data center. In…
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Radical Uncertainty Is the Job
Most advice about building a company is the answer to a puzzle. The hardest parts were never puzzles. In 1921, the economist Frank Knight drew a line that…
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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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The Builder’s Bet
I’ve spent 15+ years building things inside other people’s companies. This week I started building one of my own. It’s called Aqen.ai. You bring the idea. Aqen brings…
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I Trained a Small Language Model on My City’s Government Documents
A few weeks ago I shipped a phone app that lets residents measure the speed of cars on their street. The thing I learned building it wasn’t about…
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I Vibe Coded a Civic Tool
Everyone’s vibe coding the next todo app. The next AI wrapper. The next SaaS dashboard that solves a problem three other SaaS dashboards already solved. I vibe coded…
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Can AI Solve the Four Burner Problem?
In my last post, Awe in an AI World, I wrote about the reclaimed time that AI is creating and the question that keeps me up at night in…
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Awe in an AI World
I’ve spent most of my life implementing systems at scale, watching engineering teams transform how they work (pre- and post-AI), and having thousands of conversations about what it…