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Jun 14, 2026 • 5 min read
AI Is Not The Opportunity, The Economic Disruption AI Creates Is The Opportunity.
The thing I’m always trying to separate is whether someone has discovered an arbitrage or built a business. The most valuable companies tend to be the ones that own the mechanism that generates the economics, not just the ones that happen to benefit from it for a short period of time

May 24, 2026 • 4 min read
Most AI Service Companies Are Building The Wrong Thing
Plus Sam’s new X playbook, and Slow merch that says the industry's uncomfortable truths out loud.

May 10, 2026 • 5 min read
How to Price Out-Of-The-Money Seed Investment
At seed, you are evaluating two separate things at once: (1) is this a real business with a path to a real outcome, and (2) given how wild the next decade looks, what is the chance this thing becomes something nobody can imagine today.

Apr 26, 2026 • 5 min read
Chat Sucks. The Right Interface for AI Is Email.
The chat paradigm is a holdover from the "one assistant, one conversation" mental model. But AI isn't one assistant. It's an army of workers. And armies don't take orders through a chat window. They take orders through dispatch, through structured requests that can be routed, prioritized, and executed in parallel.

Apr 19, 2026 • 5 min read
AI Is Not a Labor Crisis...
Meaning is becoming the real scarcity. Not intelligence, not productivity, not even stuff. But trust, belonging, purpose, and the sense that your striving matters.

Apr 5, 2026 • 11 min read
We Taught Content Creators How To Code
The "non-technical founder" is a dead category. If you can describe what you want clearly, you can build it.

Mar 29, 2026 • 8 min read
Security's Big Lie: Faster Isn't Smarter In The Age Of AI
What we’re seeing now isn’t AI coming for security. It’s the market realizing (maybe a little late) that the ground has already shifted. On Friday, Anthropic’s unreleased “Claude Mythos” model leaked—Fortune, CNBC, and Yahoo Finance all reported it poses “unprecedented cybersecurity risks,” capable of rapidly finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities at machine speed.

Mar 22, 2026 • 9 min read
Revenge Of The Non-Coder: Creator AI Bootcamp & Hackathon
The old gatekeeping around technical skills is breaking down—fast.

Mar 15, 2026 • 9 min read
Deep Tech Isn’t Your Get-Out-of-Software-Free Card
There’s a new refrain echoing through VC land—“Software is uninvestable, so now I’m focusing on deep tech.” Give me a break, Mr. Software VC. Suddenly everyone’s a quantum physicist, a biohacker, a rocket scientist. It’s the meme du jour.

Mar 8, 2026 • 10 min read
Why the Next CAPTCHA is for Bots, Not Humans
The arms race isn’t just humans vs. bots, it’s bots vs. bots

Feb 22, 2026 • 6 min read
Forget AGI. Intelligence is Cheap.
Base intelligence is becoming a commodity. The real value is moving up the stack.

Jul 24, 2025 • 4 min read
Will Quist: Lets Build Robots That Eat the World
As with most hard tech, the cost of building groundbreaking robots often outweighs their ability to deliver real returns. However, there is one pricing model that already exists — and it may unlock the true economics for Robot-as-a-Service to work.