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Culture isn’t a slide in a training deck. It’s the operating system.
I’ve spent years building a business with offices across countries and a team that’s grown past a thousand people.
Jul 17
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$60 Billion Couldn't Fix AI Drug Discovery. Can Anthropic?
I’ve been following AI’s entry into biomedicine for a long time.
Jul 1
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June 2026
The Day My Operating System Went Dark
What a Claude Code outage taught me about building a business on someone else’s cloud and why the Emergency GPT Kit stopped being a thought experiment.
Jun 26
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The Resolution Library
On what actually goes into the learning loop
Jun 24
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Capital in Tokens: Why Your People Just Got More Valuable, Not Less
I just finished Satya Nadella’s essay on X, “A frontier without an ecosystem is not stable.” It went up on Sunday and has already pulled in tens of…
Jun 19
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$25,000 a day.
That’s what AI trainers on Wall Street are charging right now.
Jun 10
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May 2026
How I Read My Own Genome Over a Weekend
That 23andMe file has been sitting on my drive since 2019.
May 28
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On Content, Personal Brand, and Your Own Absurdity
Content has become one of the most powerful channels for building and expanding your network in the modern world.
May 26
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OpenAI grew from 1,000 to 3,000 people in a single year. The operating model never centralized.
Calvin French-Owen spent a year inside that growth curve, then left and published an honest breakdown of how the most valuable AI company on the planet…
May 15
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When You Speed Up Code 100x, the Bottleneck Doesn’t Disappear. It Migrates.
And right now it’s migrating straight into the seams of every consulting firm and enterprise client I work with.
May 6
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April 2026
Google Just Spent $750M to Settle the “AI Will Kill Consulting” Debate
For a year, every AI thread has circled the same prediction: agents will hollow out consulting.
Apr 29
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The Six-Dollar Secret: Why the Next Trillion-Dollar Company Will Look Nothing Like a Software Company
A deeper dive into Sequoia’s thesis and what it means for builders right now
Apr 8
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