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.
Globalization Without Geography
AI is creating a new supply of knowledge labor without a country—and moving scarcity from intelligence toward agency.
The Agency Layer
Models know. Tools act. The missing layer lets software safely act for you.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Older academic writing remains available by direct link but is intentionally not part of this selected index.