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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.

April 2026· 6 min read#AI · FutureOfWork · Leadership

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

March 2026· 5 min read#founders · startups · productthinking · AI · leadership

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

March 2026· 19 min read#AI · Leadership

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

February 2026· 5 min read#AI · Leadership

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?

April 2025· 4 min read#AI · Software Engineering · Innovation

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...