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  • Sep 09

    One server, every device, yours

    Whelk is out. One server on hardware you own, a native client on every device you carry, and a room full of…

    AI & Implementation, Building in Public · 2 min
  • 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
  • Jun 15

    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…

    Building in Public · 4 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
  • May 05

    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.…

    Building in Public · 4 min
  • Apr 24

    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…

    Building in Public · 6 min
  • Apr 06

    The Org Chart Is Flattening & Nobody Has a Replacement

    Two things happened last week that look unrelated but aren’t. JPMorgan told its 65,000 engineers and technologists that AI tool usage is…

    Engineering Leadership · 7 min
  • Mar 26

    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…

    Building in Public · 6 min
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