Essays

Notes on AI, operations, and building businesses that actually run.

Essay

The Real Reason AI Isn't Paying Off

Adoption is everywhere and the productivity is nowhere. The reason is an old one: every general-purpose technology only pays off after the business is rebuilt around it, not when the tool is bolted on.

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The End of Hiring

Why AI will let you rent entire departments like apps, and build a solo empire. Function-as-a-Service is coming, and it changes what a company even is.

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The Droid Inevitability

Why the future points toward autonomous droids and scrap piles, not a centralized invisible computer. Once intelligence is a free file, the body is the only expensive part.