Writing.
Essays on AI, startups, and the craft of building. New posts go out on Substack and live here as the canonical home.
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The Agent Platform Wars Are Really a Quiet Rewrite of Serverless
Strip the branding off AgentCore, AgentRun, AgentKit and the rest, and the five major clouds are all doing one thing: rewriting serverless from the ground up for agents.
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I Read the OpenClaw and Hermes Source Code: One Bets on Reuse, the Other on Owning the Loop
I pointed Claude Code at the OpenClaw and Hermes codebases. Same product shape, opposite bets: one reuses an upstream runtime and spends its budget on the platform, the other owns the entire loop.
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The Founder-Fit Question: Your Personality Decides Your Direction
Why the survivors in startups aren't all the hardest workers. A look at how temperament and early attachment patterns quietly decide which direction actually fits you.
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Zero Funding, Zero Burn: How to Hit $10K MRR in 30 Days
The execution version of bootstrapping a B2B SaaS. Thirty days, step by step, from nothing to $10K MRR. What to do, when, and where things go wrong.
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Team, Pace, Founder: Three Things I Keep Coming Back To
Scattered notes from a few years of building startups, on the three things I keep returning to: how to build the team, how to manage pace, and what actually matters in a founder.
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The Real FOMO of 2026: What the AI Industry Is Actually Afraid Of
The fear in 2026 is structural. The fundamental logic of building a company is being rewritten, and it hits everything indiscriminately.
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Your Agent Infrastructure Is Probably Not Your Moat
My team spent a month building our own agent stack, then realized twenty other companies were building the exact same thing. On when to build agent infra and when to hand it off.
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In the AI Era, Builders Are Replacing Storytellers
When AI crushes the cost of execution, the founder archetype shifts. ARR replaces narrative as the honest signal of this era.
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