Writing.

Notes on AI, government delivery, and the business of building things.

012025-06-01

How to Be Useful in the Age of AI

A field manual for the human side of the AI shift — the skills, mindsets, and systems that keep you irreplaceable when the models get everything else.

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022025-06-01

You-as-a-Service

Self-deployment, version control, and weekly operations for strategic humans. Run yourself the way great teams run their software.

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032026-04-01

The Boring Business Renaissance

The biggest companies built with AI won't be AI companies. They will be the ones that use AI to make the unglamorous parts of business run faster, cheaper, and better than anyone else.

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042026-03-11

The Wrapper Problem Is Worse Than You Think

If your moat is someone else's model, you don't have a moat. You have a lease. Here's why wrapper companies look like real businesses right up until they aren't.

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052026-03-14

The AI Startup Graveyard, by the Numbers

92% of AI startups fail. $17.5 billion in venture capital has already evaporated. And the market is still writing checks. What separates the survivors from the statistics?

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