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Essays and notes on building, photography, and whatever else I'm thinking about.
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The cost of being organized just collapsed
The modern workforce has always split into two camps: the meticulously organized and the rest of us. AI just changed the price of crossing over, and I suspect it changes much more than that.
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The value is back on the ground
In the middle of the AI boom, I feel blessed to have landed in an industry where the last step of delivering value is still manual.
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No migration required
A prediction: AI-native companies entering traditional industries will outrun incumbents, because the most painful part of transformation is the part they get to skip.
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The right answer at the right time
A prospective hire sparked the effort to encode everything I've learned into a second brain. AI is what makes the whole exercise worthwhile.
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All I want to schedule is more work
An honest audit of my calendar: family, work, gym, cooking, sleep. Everything else has been traded for building, and I'm mostly at peace with that. Mostly.
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The future employee comes with a toolkit
A prediction about hiring: the resume of the future won't just list skills. It will list the tools, agents, and projects you bring with you.
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The goal is to keep playing
Corporate life came with guardrails I never had to build myself. Running a business, the hardest resource to manage turned out to be me.
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Building a company is a survival game
A year into Urban Makers Construction, the closest thing to entrepreneurship I've experienced isn't a job. It's Don't Starve.