Writing

Essays and notes on the commercial side of AI, Bitcoin, and frontier technology.

Be unreasonably good at one job

Startups that scale start by being irreplaceable at one job. Most spread their effort across everything and nothing compounds.

Soldiers, scouts, and the limits of persuasion

Most people dismiss Bitcoin without looking because nothing in their world has broken yet. The skill is knowing who's ready and directing your energy there.

Engagement is inventory

Extractive platforms profit from degrading discourse. Nostr + Bitcoin fix the incentives.

Extraction is rational

Every wave of the internet promised to democratize something. Every wave ended in extraction. The pattern isn't greed—it's the money.

Cloudflare went down again. Reframe resilience.

Recurring infrastructure failures create an opening: reframe decentralization as risk management, not ideology

Launched: Nostr UX pattern library

Launching nostr-ux.com—evidence-based UX patterns for building Nostr apps that don't lose users

Sovereignty without sacrifice

Freedom tech loses when it demands sacrifice. Winning means building products that are better on every dimension—not just principles.