July 3, 2026 · 7 min read
I thought I lost my principle
Nine weeks ago I promised you a sentence. Yesterday I almost threw it away.
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Infrastructure of Belonging
On building things that matter, technology for social impact, and scaling yourself before scaling headcount.
June 26, 2026 · 7 min read
The 49,000 People Under the Breakthrough
Everyone celebrates the breakthrough. Almost nobody remembers the foundation it was standing on.
June 19, 2026 · 6 min read
FIFA gave all 48 teams the same AI. That won't level the field.
Access was never the bottleneck. It never is.
June 12, 2026 · 6 min read
Your Business Runs on Preferences Nobody Wrote Down
Stakeholder variance is the next step in your knowledge gap. Ingestion design will be a much needed skill.
June 5, 2026 · 6 min read
The Knowledge Base Is the Culture
Most AI-in-business stories are replacement stories. We built the opposite. I want to walk through how that actually happened.
May 29, 2026 · 9 min read
Why the sector that needs AWS never got one
Bezos and Cutler did something the nonprofit sector was structurally prevented from doing. Until now.
May 22, 2026 · 8 min read
Knowledge triggered by a decision
Coordination got cheap. Knowledge got portable. Together they change what a small team can do.
May 20, 2026 · 5 min read
Friday mornings, starting now
I'm moving to Fridays. If you're new or catching up, here's every issue so far.
May 13, 2026 · 6 min read
We Did Demo Day. Nobody Got Automated.
The goal was never fewer people. It was more capacity for the people we have.
May 6, 2026 · 6 min read
Same Pattern, Different Stakes
I built the same tool twice. Once for vendors. Once for an ER.
April 29, 2026 · 5 min read
The Principle I'm Circling
Eight weeks of writing showed me the fight underneath every project I'm running.
April 22, 2026 · 6 min read
The Contribution Surface
Every founder has heard "how can I help?" Most of us have the wrong problem.
April 15, 2026 · 6 min read
Context Engineering for Humans
We spend millions engineering context for machines. We almost never make that investment for people.
April 8, 2026 · 6 min read
She couldn't sleep. So I started running.
A stroller, a diagnosis, and the 100-mile race that started with a mile I barely survived.
April 1, 2026 · 5 min read
A tattoo, a talk I almost skipped, and the slide that connected everything
I went for the automation demos. I stayed because of a tattoo and a conversation with a stranger.
March 25, 2026 · 6 min read
The Three Phases of Building
March 18, 2026 · 4 min read
AI Didn't Write My Story. It Showed Me the Thread.
March 11, 2026 · 5 min read
What Exists That Nobody's Using
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