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Soup Stays Soup

The Company as a Machine

The Molecule Is the Fast Part

The Newsletters I Actually Open When They Land

Watch the Payment Layer, Not the Protocol

Anthropic's Prospectus: $4.6 Billion in Revenue, $518 Billion in Obligations

The Floor Moves Every Four Months

I Tried Meta’s Agent. The Interesting Part Was Outside the Chat.

The Business Model That Depends on You Not Bothering

The Best 16-Year-Olds Rarely Become the Best 30-Year-Olds

The Machine That Finally Reads the Fine Print

The Technology Is Ready Before We Are

AI Agents Are the Easy Part. Institutional Memory Is the Moat.

Coldcard Q: a device built by paranoid cryptographers, and why that paranoia just got vindicated

The AI-layoffs story everyone’s telling isn’t the one happening in the room.

Culture isn’t a slide in a training deck. It’s the operating system.

$60 Billion Couldn't Fix AI Drug Discovery. Can Anthropic?

The Day My Operating System Went Dark

The Resolution Library

Capital in Tokens: Why Your People Just Got More Valuable, Not Less

$25,000 a day.

How I Read My Own Genome Over a Weekend

On Content, Personal Brand, and Your Own Absurdity

OpenAI grew from 1,000 to 3,000 people in a single year. The operating model never centralized.

When You Speed Up Code 100x, the Bottleneck Doesn’t Disappear. It Migrates.

Google Just Spent $750M to Settle the “AI Will Kill Consulting” Debate

The Six-Dollar Secret: Why the Next Trillion-Dollar Company Will Look Nothing Like a Software Company

The infrastructure layer nobody’s talking about. Why Cloudflare might be the default deploy target for AI-built software.

OpenClaw as a Foundation for Vertical AI Agents.

How I replaced $2,000/month in SaaS with a $200 Claude Code subscription.

How to Actually Choose an AI Agent Platform

The 5 Platforms Fighting for Enterprise AI Agents

The Real NVIDIA Moat Has Nothing to Do With GPUs

Consulting Firms Spent $10 Billion on AI. Their Business Model Didn’t Change.

Consulting Firms Spent $10 Billion on AI. Their Business Model Didn’t Change.

I Self-Hosted an AI Agent Orchestrator. Here’s What I Learned About the Future

I Don’t Need to Know Databricks. An AI Agent Will Do It for Me.

$240 Billion in Panic-Buying

On First Technological Victories

The Vertical AI Agent Opportunity. And Why It Won’t Last Forever

About the irreversible risk of the Big Four

The Two Ways to Build Healthcare AI: Why OpenAI and Anthropic Made Opposite Bets on Patient Data

I Built a Truth Serum for AI Models (And Learned They Argue Like Consultants)

The Shadow AI Revolution in Medicine: What 1,000+ Physicians Really Think