Essays, notes, and longer pieces. Some also on Substack.
11 min read
Poorly framed questions used to die on the vine because following them up was expensive. AI agents made that follow-up nearly free, so bad questions survive, pick up momentum, and come back as polished answers that mislead.
15 min read
We all carry the same short list of levers we can pull on a life: behavior, attitude, environment, people. The list is ancient and mostly right. The danger is what happens the moment we point it at someone else.
5 min read
If your app only exists on your machine, in a demo you narrate, or behind a landing page, you haven't shipped—yet. Here's a blunt definition of shipped that still leaves room for v0.
9 min read
A professional kitchen only produces art when the people at the bottom hold a narrow, deep focus and the person at the top holds a wide, shallow one. That inversion is a portable mental model — for orchestras, armies, companies, and the teams of humans and machines we're about to build.
9 min read
AI erased the hardest-looking obstacle in college admissions and left the actually hard part completely untouched. The data shows what happened next.
13 min read
AI didn't perfect the essay or kill the craft of code. It made the median free — and revealed that the craft was always one layer up from the typing we mistook it for.
7 min read
The difference isn't the app — it's whether it protects the struggle or removes it. And you can tell which one you've got in about ten minutes.
8 min read
A free radical employee isn't a brilliant jerk. They're structurally illegible — and that's both their value and their problem depending on what your company needs right now.
7 min read
AI tools produce outputs that look useful inside the chat and break the moment you try to share them. Here's how to fix that.
2 min read
Session recording for pre-PMF founders: gated invite links, rrweb replays, event analytics, JSON export, and optional AI synthesis across sessions. Because user interviews tell you what people say. Recordings tell you what they do.
2 min read
An in-browser HTML/CSS/JS practice lab for grades 6–12. No account, no installs, no tracking. Works offline. The output is a real web page the student made themselves.
3 min read
A physical place in Richmond, Virginia for kids 8–16 to learn AI by building. A library and a clubhouse. Real outputs, real mentors, real tools. Not a camp, not a worksheet, not a certificate.
2 min read
A drop-in anti-spam proxy for web forms. One script tag, behavioral scoring, graceful degradation. No captchas, no data collection, never breaks the form.
3 min read
A web-app builder where component authors earn royalties from the apps that use their work. 30% of net hosting revenue pools per app and flows back to the components that made it. The royalty economy the web never had.
2 min read
A 90-day entrepreneurship program for students with a Socratic AI coach and three real progress gates. No equity taken. The goal is a kid who finishes with something real—not a certificate and a poster board.
10 min read
Building software in the age of AI is not really about the models. It's about the slow migration of the human out of the build loop and into the judgment loop, one rung at a time.
9 min read
Cognitive dissonance is not only a mind thing: autonomic arousal spikes when beliefs clash, and a convincing story can quiet the psychology while the nervous system keeps score.
4 min read
Capitalism is an asymmetric game. Play it as a consumer and the system burns your time as fuel. Play it as an allocator and it becomes the most powerful engine for personal liberation ever built.
24 min read
How three unremarkable features of the U.S. tax code combine into a dynastic wealth machine — and what it's doing to art markets, real estate, and the basic logic of capital in America.
11 min read
The real reason scaling feels like chaos — and why it was always going to.
14 min read
A companion piece to last week's essay on global VC tooling. Same author, opposite side of the table. The strongest case a thoughtful colleague would make against the original argument, presented in good faith so the reader can weigh both.
8 min read
Meetings stopped being the work a long time ago. The translation was. You can stop doing the translation by hand.
15 min read
Venture tooling has a Delaware problem. Nairobi, Tbilisi, Tunis, Almaty, Lagos, Bogotá, and Jakarta keep paying for it.
9 min read
The claim that a culture is 'incompatible with modernity' almost always serves a political agenda—either to justify subordination from outside or to protect elite power from within. The honest question is harder: what gets traded for what, who decides, and under what conditions.
5 min read
Judgement can improve, but only when we stop treating it as one fixed-or-growable trait and focus on what actually moves the needle: calibration, feedback, and structure—while being honest about limits.
1 min read
A step-by-step guide to turning written ideas into professional podcast episodes—no microphone required. From script to AI voice to export.
7 min read
Why the AI age rewards first-principles builders—not software specialists
1 min read
How to transform short story ideas, educational concepts, or speculative scenarios into cinematic trailers using AI tools—no filmmaking experience required.
1 min read
Your portfolio company just raised at a higher price. CapStack GP: single-file cap table and exit waterfall tool for GPs—offline, private, no backend.
1 min read
Quick deck builder for busy startup and small business operators. Guided form, AI-generated 14-slide pitch deck, shareable link, export to PDF or Gamma.
1 min read
A tool that scores listings by your priorities—schools, commute, value, community—so you can decide with your head and your gut. RAAM at raam.homes.
1 min read
History, Non-Stop: same addictive scroll as social feeds, but they're learning. Bite-sized history, verified facts, global timeline—free, no ads.
2 min read
Deterministic waterfall calculations, capital calls, LP reporting, and compliance—powered by a math engine and AI judgment. Fund data never leaves your machine.
3 min read
Model every exit scenario before the term sheet—cap table mechanics, exit waterfalls, ownership dilution, and fund-level MOIC. No account, data stays in your browser, institutional-grade defaults.
4 min read
AI-native LP reporting with full citation provenance and two GP approval gates. Portfolio data in, draft in your voice—nothing reaches LPs without your sign-off.
1 min read
Joker (ჯოკერი) is a trick-taking game with exact bidding and wild Jokers. I built jokeri.site to learn by playing—AI opponents, English and Georgian, no signup.
4 min read
A free, no-login math app I use with an elementary student—grade-level topics, adaptive difficulty, and practice that actually progresses. Link and why it works.
17 min read
Building software for fun has never been cheaper, faster, or more accessible. Facts, timelines, and cost data to ground a long-form post about coding as a hobby.
1 min read
What does it actually mean to know when to go? On reading the signals, sunk cost, and the courage to leave before it's obvious.
9 min read
The quality of your life is determined by the quality of the questions you ask yourself. Not the answers. How to reframe decisions, from McDonald's milkshakes to parenting.
8 min read
Focus used to be easy. Now it's a skill. What 'hard work' and sustained attention actually mean when the world is engineered to fragment us—and how to help kids build the skill of choosing depth.
1 min read
As machines get better at thinking, the market is betting big on the things that require a body, a reputation, and a pulse.
1 min read
What happens when the skills we've been drilling into our kids for 150 years become the exact things machines do best? On education, adaptation, and the new leverage.
1 min read
I was born and raised in the United States, but my family now includes many members born and raised in Georgia. On updating the maps we carry.
1 min read
I built Ante Social because every learning app I tried became another source of distraction. On building for focus instead of engagement.