Raising three kids taught me more about building than any business book: - Consistency beats intensity - Small wins compound - You can't control outcomes, only inputs - The boring stuff matters most - Some days you just show up The skills transfer. The patience transfers.

My 14-year-old: "Dad, my phone (AI) can translate anything. Why do I need to speak German with you?" Me: Translation was never the point. Connection is. When you speak someone's language - even badly - trust builds differently. No app (or AI) replicates that.

Using AI to build something is completely different from scrolling TikTok. One prepares my kids for an agentic world. One makes them a product for advertisers. We talk about the difference. Often.

2024: AI will take your job 2025: AI will do your job better 2026: AI hires you to do its job 2027: ??? Fill in the blank. Best answer gets nothing but my respect.

I've been planning an agent stack on Anthropic's Agent SDK. And the more I plan, the more I wonder: Why would I use OpenClaw instead? With the Agent SDK I get full control over what the agent can access, how it behaves, what it knows - customized to my exact security and

Kids in Spain with grandparents for the school holidays. Me alone with the Agent SDK. One of us is going to have a better week than the other.

The dirty secret of every CRM: It doesn't know what your sales team does. It knows what they chose to log. Very different thing. In face-to-face sales industries, the gap between those two is where deals die silently. I spent 20 years watching this problem. Now I'm building

I build AI tools for niche businesses. I watch it reshape biotech in real time during my work. Then I "come home" to 3 teenagers in a school system built for a world that's disappearing. Not blaming the schools. They can't move that fast. But we can. Other AI-native parents

this week: Spain, school holidays, a night drive, customer calls, low energy, and half-functional attempts at building an Agentic CRM. not my most productive week on paper. probably my best week by other metrics. happy Friday everyone.