Writing
On building, AI, and the instincts that don’t change.
The Real Argument in Sequoia’s “From Hierarchy to Intelligence” It’s Not About AI. It’s About What Counts as Performance.
Sequoia’s “From Hierarchy to Intelligence,” co-authored by Jack Dorsey and Roelof Botha, is being discussed as if it were mostly a technology argument. Read...
The Myth of the Technical Founder
The best technology companies are rarely built by the best technologists.I don’t mean that dismissively. I’ve spent twenty years building technology companies....
Building an AI Agent Workforce: What Running 16 Agents on a 2018 Mac Mini Taught Me About the Future of Autonomous Work
Two days ago, I had 16 AI agents running autonomously on a 2018 Mac Mini. A supervisor agent was dispatching tasks. A dedicated monitoring agent was watching...
What a 66-Year-Old Jazz Record Teaches Us About Navigating the AI Shift
On improvisation, intuition, and what endures when the instruments change.
Two Decades Creating Software, Yet AI Has Me Asking—Is Human Creativity Going To Be Irrelevant in Tech?
Having spent the better part of the last 20 years leading engineering teams and developing hundreds, if not thousands, of projects and products, I've had a...