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The Blog.

Notes on AI, product, building, and the things I'm figuring out as I go.

Sun Mar 22enterprise

Every Company Needs an Agent OS Strategy

The agent runtime layer is becoming infrastructure — just like Linux and Kubernetes before it. Companies that don't build a strategy around it will be caught flat-footed.

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Sun Mar 22enterprise

We Hold Robots to a Standard We've Never Held Humans

Autonomous vehicles are held to an impossible standard while human drivers kill 40,000 people a year in the US — and that asymmetry is a policy failure, not a safety posture.

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Sun Mar 22enterprise

The One Tool Test

If you can't name the commercial AI tool you brought into your organization this month, that's the answer.

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Sun Mar 22enterprise

SaaS Isn't Dying. It's Becoming the Floor.

SaaS won't disappear — it'll become infrastructure underneath a new layer of agent-driven software that actually does the work instead of just displaying it.

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Sun Mar 15enterprise

The Three Hats Every AI Team Needs

The mythical one-person AI company is possible for a rare few — but for the rest of us, there are three distinct roles that make AI actually work inside an organization.

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Sat Mar 28support

We built a feature live on a sales call. While the prospect was still on the line.

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Sat Mar 21

OpenClaw: The Revolutionary Open Source AI Agent Platform

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Mon Mar 23enterprise

The AI Chip Smuggling Scandal Exposes a Fundamental Flaw in Export Controls

The recent charges against Super Micro insiders reveal how current export controls are too rigid, driving underground markets that undermine U.S. innovation leadership.

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Fri Mar 13expand

Go Fast, Find the Guardrails

Amazon's AI-assisted outages aren't an argument for slowing down — they're the map showing where to build guardrails.

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Fri Mar 13expand

Driving vs. Riding: The Pacing Problem in Leadership

80 mph feels different depending on whether you're driving or riding — and that gap is one of the most underrated problems in leadership.

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