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Ideas about agency.

Essays on what happens when intelligence gets cheap, software learns to act, and the boundary between tools and economic actors begins to move.

012026-09-0312 min read
#ai#economics#agents

Globalization Without Geography

AI is creating a new supply of knowledge labor without a country—and moving scarcity from intelligence toward agency.

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022026-09-038 min read
#ai#agents#software

The Agency Layer

Models know. Tools act. The missing layer lets software safely act for you.

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032026-08-127 min read
#agency#technology#leadership

Agency: What Philosophy, Markets, and AI Taught Me About Building Technology

A decade across marketplaces, home services, crypto infrastructure, and AI agents kept bringing me back to the same question: what gives people the ability to act?

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042026-08-123 min read
#leadership#startups#growth

Conviction Without Adaptation Is Just Stubbornness

Building through a downturn changed how I think about leadership: a founder needs enough conviction to keep moving and enough humility to admit when reality has changed.

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052026-08-123 min read
#ai-agents#product#markets

Fueling the Agent Engine

The useful question about AI agents isn't whether they are autonomous. It's what jobs we can responsibly delegate to software, and what infrastructure makes that delegation trustworthy.

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062024-12-156 min read
#ai-agents#crypto#trading#product

Thoughts on Agents, Jobs to Be Done, and Trading

Trading today feels messy and overwhelming. The opportunity isn't another tool — it's a network. Something that pulls everything into one place, automates the repetitive work, and makes smarter decisions.

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