Technology
9 Essays
Quit Submitting Resumes. Make Your First Million in the Integration Layer.
Walk into companies and implement AI for their specific business needs.

Recently, Mark Cuban told his kids, and a lot of other people's kids, what to do in 2026. "Learn all you can about AI, but learn more on how to implement them in companies.". He pointed at the 33 million companies in this country. None of them have an AI budget. None have an AI e...more
The Age of the Independent Builder
AI agents have finally made true independence possible without rare skills.
I spent years trying to fix education from the inside. I built tools, I talked to school superintendents, and I tried to find the "hero teachers" who could change things. But the education system has an immune on its own. Every time you introduce a new idea, the institution finds...more
Learning at the Speed of Building
Education's waiting room is obsolete; learning now happens at the speed of building.
For a century, education has been treated like a separate phase of life. We were told that we had to spend our first twenty years in a "waiting room," accumulating facts and skills just in case we might need them later. This is what I call Intellectual Debt. You borrow time from...more
Permissionless Leverage in the Age of Agents
AI agents have closed the gap between independence and gatekeepers.
In 2023, I realized that trying to fix education from the inside was a losing game. The system has an "immune system" that turns every new idea into a standardized checkbox. I decided the only way forward was to build a new path outside the system and I called this initiative goa...more
The Proof of Work Protocol (Part 1): Beyond the Degree
The degree has become an expensive receipt for a map of a world that no longer…
We are witnessing the largest destruction of human capital in history. The four year degree has become an expensive receipt for a map of a world that no longer exists. Most people still treat it like an asset. For a century, the degree served as the ultimate Signal. It was a way...more
The Agentic Deep Move: From Tutors to Co-Builders
AI shifts from tutor to co-builder, collapsing the gap between intent and execution.
By the spring of 2025, the energy at the AI Hub in Monterey had shifted. Every Wednesday night, our brainstorms moved away from the novelty of "chatting with data" toward the structural reality of agentic workflows. We stopped viewing AI as a conversationalist and started viewing...more
Going Solo: Automating the Startup Operating System
A single founder can match a team's velocity by automating operations with AI.
The last several months have been a period of deep technical restructuring. Since moving away from the cohort model and operating without a core team at the end of 2023, I decided to go solo. My primary goal was to see if a single founder could maintain the velocity of a full tea...more
The Software Paradox: Why Amplification Isn’t Transformation
Technology amplifies systems; it cannot transform them without rewriting incentives.
Let’s hop in the time machine and rewind to March 2020. I was all set to pitch our groundbreaking product, "21st Century Skills in Schools," to a school district in Utah.. This was the culmination of everything I had written about previously. The 6 Core Tenets, the pursuit of fin...more
Better Ed-Tech Tools Don’t Make Better Schools
Better tools alone won't transform schools without addressing their underlying institutional constraints.

Most people believe that if you give a school better tools, you get a better school. We often hope that a new app or a better curriculum will be the key to helping children learn more. But after building tools for hundreds of schools over the last three years, I have found a mism...more