Field notes from building an AI practice from scratch. New posts every few weeks.

• tokens-as-capital.md

  May 22, 2026

  Tokens As Capital

  Last week Altman handed every YC startup $2M in OpenAI tokens for an uncapped SAFE. The thing you used to budget against is now the thing you can be funded in — with a quiet conflict of interest baked in.

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• the-tech-is-ahead-of-the-org-chart.md

  May 22, 2026

  The Tech Is Ahead Of The Org Chart

  One side of the org chart is adding entirely new roles — Forward Deployed Engineers, Chief AI Officers. The other side is collapsing entire layers. Both moves are the same admission: the old shape doesn't fit anymore.

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• we-are-so-early-in-stablecoins.md

  April 27, 2026

  We Are So Early In Stablecoins

  Stablecoins are about 1.4% of US M2. Pair that with x402 turning on the dormant HTTP 402 'Payment Required' status code and you have the rails for an agent economy that hasn't even started transacting yet.

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• the-voice-unlock.md

  April 27, 2026

  The Voice Unlock

  We treat voice as a fallback — slower, less precise. But for working with AI it might be the better modality. The unstructured dump is the feature, not the bug.

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• the-token-economy.md

  April 24, 2026

  The Token Economy

  Token management is part of the job now. Why the cheap era is ending — and why your value as a knowledge worker is starting to correlate with how much AI you can put to work.

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• the-mindset-shift-ai-forces-on-you.md

  April 16, 2026

  The Mindset Shift AI Forces on You

  The real unlock with AI isn't the tools — it's what happens to your brain after you've been using them a certain way for a while. Two waves that rewired how I work.

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