I build alone. AI coding agents carry the whole gamut of my work, and I keep two writing threads here:
Tech: engineering writeups for senior techies. Architecture, technology deep-dives, operating models, tech team organization. Published only when the content has consequences.
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Latest in Tech
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Grounding is a contract, not a citation
I’m building a stealth vertical AI platform that extracts data from authoritative documents, and the numbers it extracts end up on money paths. If you’ve pulled numbers out of a...
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Parallel coding agents fail at authority, not isolation
I build alone, and AI coding agents carry the whole gamut of the work: specs, scope decisions, implementation, grounding, tests, and promotion to production. Two products are in...
Latest in Midweek Synapse
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The bailout behind the Boston Tea Party
The tea dumped into Boston Harbor arrived under a law built to rescue a failing company. That law made tea cheaper, with a tax hidden inside, and that was exactly the problem.
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The day genome sequencing outran Moore's Law
The cost of sequencing a human-sized genome fell from $95 million to $525 in NHGRI's series. The crucial break came when laboratories switched methods in 2008. That makes the cu...
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Why nearly every startup is a Delaware C corporation
Business textbooks call the C corporation the expensive way to own a company, because its profits get taxed twice. Nearly every startup that raises venture money picks it anyway...
