Week One
There are weeks where you do good work and weeks where the way you do work changes permanently. We just had the second kind.
Agentic AI
Agents, workflows, and the new division of labor between people and machines.
The Wrong People Are Worried About AI
Founders keep asking how to build faster. That's the wrong question. Speed was the bottleneck for twenty years. It's not anymore.
The Brief Is the Design.
Most AI-generated design is not ugly. It’s worse: it’s plausible. Craft begins when the brief stops describing and starts constraining.
Stop Prompting for Ideas. Start Mining for Signal.
Most prompts produce answers. Answers are cheap. Signal is what reduces uncertainty—and it’s what actually moves the work forward.
The Reverse Centaur: When Humans Serve the Machine
The centaur was human judgment augmented by machine power. The reverse centaur is human labor subordinated to machine logic. We are becoming the horse.