Curious about most things. Certain about very few.
Writing it out loud — with AI.
I built a full-stack production application — React, FastAPI, Supabase, vector embeddings — without writing a single line of code. What that means for everyone who ever said "I'd need a developer for that."
Rockefeller didn't find oil. He controlled it. By 1880 Standard Oil refined 90% of American petroleum. The money was never in the resource — it was in the infrastructure that moved it.
Every piece on this site is researched and written with Claude (Anthropic). The analysis, positions, and editorial judgment are mine.
The AI does the heavy lifting on data and first drafts. I do the thinking, the challenging, and the deciding. This is what writing in public interest looks like when AI is a collaborator, not a ghostwriter.
Macro, policy, and the gap between what the numbers say and what they mean.
Automation, workflows, and what happens when AI stops being a tool and starts being a collaborator.
How the world got built. One story at a time. The people who built things that outlasted them.
Not frameworks. Not listicles. What actually works when you're responsible for other people's outcomes.