About

I'm an introvert who ran a social-experience startup, way before its time. Covid killed it. Somewhere underneath, there was a strange relief. That was the kicker.

I write short essays about learning, work, technology, and the things that shape a life. The question underneath them keeps changing. Lately it has been what becomes valuable when familiar skills become easier to reproduce.

Paying for AI models felt obvious three or four years ago, back when most people still called it a waste of money.

AI is going to change what it means to be a person. For a lot of people, that will be painful in ways they can't see yet. The hard part isn't the technology. It's what it asks of anyone still building a career around being the smart one in the room.

Here's the thing that keeps turning over in my head. Most of the conversation around AI is about going harder, stacking more tools, out-shipping the next person. Useful, sure. But it leaves something out. The question that won't leave me alone is the opposite one. How do you help the people about to get left behind? The ones whose whole identity is tied to skills that are quietly becoming cheap. No answer yet. Just a problem that keeps following me around.

A separate belief, probably harder to defend: one person, no team, earning $10 million a year by 2027. Not many. The first few will land soon.

This is where the thinking ends up. Some of it will age well. Some of it will embarrass me later. Both are fine.

Wrote this on Twitter in 2023, before it was the kind of thing people were saying:

The irony of white collar folks building a world of driverless cars, drones, and robots, only to be replaced out of their own jobs, soon. Exciting times.

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How these essays are written

The ideas begin with my notes and questions. I use AI to research and draft, then work through the writing until it says what I mean. The decisions about what belongs here are mine.

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