the fidelity of your solution is only as good as the fidelity of your understanding

squarely in the phase of finding out after fucking around

"people say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive." - joseph campbell

life mimics art

too many companies are building a "gas station" between an origin no one is starting from and a destination no one wants to travel to

good outcomes are increasingly dependent on the ability to ask the right questions as the answers to those questions get commoditized

when I went to McGuireWoods LLP's Independent Sponsor Conference this past October, I was 1 of 2 people out of 1000+ "sponsors" with a Silicon Valley background in attendance (yes, I checked). I expect it to be dozens this year.

don't be the person who shoots the first arrow or gets hit by the second grandrapidstherapygroup.com/second-arrow-o…

courage is the path to collective flourishing

keep hearing "long term" and "10 years" used almost synonymously 10 years is nowhere close to the long term

"have to make it work" is the best predictor of a successful outcome

something I believe that few other people believe: we will be *less* rather than *more* afraid of computers post AGI

current state of AI: CEOs trying to hire people who know how to or can figure out how to use it effectively a long way to replacement

the work is the joy

“man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.” - fyodor dostoevsky

2025: workers being pulled off roofs by ICE, israel/iran in open war, dreamliners falling out of the sky, LA wildfires, ukraine/russia peace talks fail, cities set on fire in riots, etc. civil society seems fully subject to the 2nd law of thermodynamics.

inevitable rude awakening in market: "software revenue" is a myth. there is only high- and low-quality revenue, determined almost entirely by how happy a customer is to keep paying the 'software stockholm syndrome' is wearing off

growth = progress disguised as pain

language is the most successful technology we have created as humans, and it isn't close.

“we treat AI agents like salaried employees. you have to keep training them if you want them to perform, and it's not cheap." - CIO of $3B revenue biz