10 posts
Startups 9 min read
Cuegence never failed, because we never built it. Part 3: the budget line, the replacement question, and why great engineering problems aren't great businesses.
Startups 10 min read
Three pivots, six calls with the people who actually sign purchase orders, one question: is this a budget line? Part 2 of the Cuegence postmortem.
Startups 7 min read
Curriculum graphs, evidence provenance, memory decay — a genuinely beautiful engineering problem. Part 1: how that beauty replaced the question of who would pay.
AI 12 min read
AI may surpass humans at many kinds of thinking without replacing humanity. The real question is whether that intelligence stays accessible to everyone.
Infrastructure 7 min read
Antarctica is cold, so why no data centers? Because data centers are factories, and factories need power, fiber, roads, spare parts, workers and permits.
Infrastructure 9 min read
Free solar, no land disputes, no cooling towers. But space removes almost everything a data center needs: easy cooling, maintenance, upgrades and repair.
AI 6 min read
I built an AI pipeline turning storyboards into assets, narration, slides and captions. It almost worked, and showed why courses are authored, not manufactured.
AI 6 min read
AI spends 30 minutes building a medical history; a doctor gets 10. The gap isn't intelligence, it's information. Build AI historians, not AI doctors.
AI 9 min read
Human-in-the-loop sounds responsible, but tired humans rubber-stamping prompts isn't governance. Real answer: programmatic boundaries, human accountability.
AI 6 min read
AI changed the feedback loop between learning and building. I ship faster than ever, yet some days I know less than ever. What that paradox means for you.
