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#014 - Anvils, Switchboards, and the Constant Loom of Labor
May 31, 2026From blacksmiths and switchboard operators to the AI revolution: why the sunset of old skills is the sunrise of new abstractions.
#013 - Shovels, Denim, and the AI Gold Rush
May 12, 2026Why the real winners of the AI boom won't just be those mining for 'gold,' but those building the next Levi Strauss.
#012 - Atmospheric Layers
May 11, 2026A look at today's marine layer in San Francisco and the beauty of atmospheric architecture.
#010 - The Abundance Machine: A History of Technological Deflation
May 10, 2026From medieval horseshoes to modern AI: Understanding how technology compresses scarce labor into cheap, abundant commodities.
#009 - 61 Nails
May 10, 2026Technological revolutions begin by making something valuable feel worthless. From the forge to the LLM, the story remains the same.
#011 - The Rent of Nails
May 10, 2026Technology relentlessly compresses scarce human labor into abundant commodities. From forged nails to AI-generated software, history shows how abundance reshapes civilization.
The Memory Illusion: The Hidden Cost of Conversational State
May 8, 2026LLMs don't remember you. Your application harness is just feeding them a transcript of your life, and it's costing you more than you think.
Silicon Gold: AMD +19%, HUT +28% — The Market Just Priced In the AI Infrastructure Era
May 6, 2026Two companies. Two very different businesses. One unmistakable message: the physical layer of AI is now the most valuable real estate on earth.
The Great Shift: From Steam to Silicon
May 5, 2026Exploring the parallels between the 19th-century Industrial Revolution and the 21st-century AI Revolution.
The Great Shift: Comparing the Industrial Revolution to the AI Revolution
May 4, 2026A deep dive into how history's greatest technological disruptions parallel today's AI landscape, through the eyes of Thomas (1800) and Alex (2025).
#004 - Markdown: The Long-Term Memory of Engineering
Apr 27, 2026Why proprietary editors are a liability and how to write for both humans and AI agents.
#002 - One Brew Upgrade Away from Ruin
Apr 26, 2026The systemic failure of developer trust and my retreat to the Secure Enclave.
#003 - True Serverless: A Static Fortress
Apr 26, 2026Why I rejected the 'managed' bloat for a pure S3/CloudFront architecture.
#001 - The Zero-Trust Outpost
Apr 26, 2026Why I stopped trusting platforms and built a static fortress.