A Fermata Doesn't Fight the Tempo
I named the parts of what I'm building after an orchestra, the Orchestra, the Metronome, the Fermata, the Score, and the naming taught me what I was actually building.
AI Building Governance
Writing
Ideas, observations, and things I'm learning
Thoughts on building products, running businesses, and working with AI.
Every Number Wears Its Source
A machine wrote my monthly operating report, graded the whole company against bars set in advance, and ranked the trustworthiness of its own numbers. The ranking caught two vendors misreporting.
AI Receipts Accountability
The Guard Must Not Name What It Guards
Git remembers everything, extracting a product from a repo that remembers everything. You can't scrub, you extract; no single reviewer can clear a repo; and a plaintext denylist is a reversible concordance.
AI Security Building
Stop Paying Rent on Features
Open your app admin and count the subscriptions. Most of them solved a real problem once, and are now a standing tax. AI changed that math, if you build software into the company instead of just building software.
AI Building Ecommerce
They Trace Calls. I Trace Decisions.
AI observability tools can tell you what a model did in a request. They can't tell you what your company decided, on what evidence, at what cost, or whether it was right.
AI Building Accountability
The Other Arms Race
In 2024 the world spent $2.7 trillion on weapons. Yet the joy economy — tourism, entertainment, wellness — already exceeds $25 trillion. The same AI being drafted into autonomous weapons could solve the last-mile distribution problem for human flourishing. That choice is being made right now.
AI Economics Society
Permission to Select All and Mark As Read
Inbox zero is a lie. In a world drowning in 392.5 billion daily emails, the question isn't how to keep up — it's whether the inbox deserves our attention at all.
AI Productivity Flow
What One Person Can Build Now
The economics of creation have fundamentally shifted. Here's what I've learned shipping products solo with AI-native workflows.
AI Building Productivity
Sunflower Supercomputer
The human brain runs on 12 watts. Our AI data centers burn billions. What if the future of computation isn't a machine at all — but a garden?
AI Nature Philosophy
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