Thoughts
On tech, AI, business, and what actually works.
August 6, 2026
Elon Musk says Starship will launch every hour — a goal so ambitious it sounds unattainable. That absurdity is the point: impossible goals redesign everything beneath them. Here is how to name your own hourly rocket, and the machinery that gets a small to medium business there.
August 2, 2026
Microsoft now describes its agent registry as 'Active Directory for AI agents' — and a $96 billion consolidation wave is building badge printers for AI employees. Why the chat box became the front door of work, why the permission layer is the real product, and why the biggest opportunity — encoding a company's roles and processes for AI — is still unowned.
June 20, 2026
Vercel deleted roughly 80% of its internal AI agent's tools and it got faster, cheaper, and more accurate. The counterintuitive result explains why most business AI fails — and hands small and medium businesses a concrete playbook for landing in the 5% that actually works.
June 19, 2026
Small businesses now adopt AI faster than big firms — yet roughly 95% of AI projects move no profit at all. Here's what the AI-native small business actually looks like by 2030, and the six-step roadmap that turns cheap intelligence into software-grade margins.
June 2, 2026
Forget the autonomous "digital employee." The small businesses actually winning with AI in 2026 each did one humbler thing — handed a single tedious chore to a machine, kept a human watching it, and got their afternoons back. Ten real cases, and the wall at the end of the runway.
May 29, 2026
AI agents pay off when you point them at a narrow back-office chore — inbox triage, scheduling, invoicing, lead follow-up — and fail when you ask them to autonomously run your business. A practical, skeptic-friendly guide for SMB operators.