Thinking out loud.
Long-form pieces on products, leadership, AI, and the ideas I can't stop turning over. Some finished, some still cooking.
Figma could eat the browser
The browser is a layout engine pretending to be the look and feel of the internet. The moment we stop sending layouts across the wire and send only data, the most valuable seat on the internet isn't Chromium — it's a canvas. Chrome shows you the room someone else decorated; a canvas hands you the paint.
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The Headless Internet
You've never actually seen YouTube — only one rendering of it. The data and the interface were always separate wires. What happens when we pull them apart and let everyone paint their own web?
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Proof of Work
What if something woke up on the internet in 2008 and invented a currency that paid us to build the compute, energy, and hardware it couldn't? Bitcoin as the chrysalis, the data centers as the cocoon — and a question about what walks out.
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The Forgetting Machine
We've started to behave like a patient with early dementia — forgetful, reactive, future-blind. The neuroscience of how chronic stress shrinks the brain's memory and foresight center, and why it's reversible.
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The Time Quotient: Why Seeing the Future Is Its Own Kind of Intelligence
We've spent a century measuring how smart people are and almost no time measuring how well they see what's coming. The case for the Time Quotient — prediction as its own kind of intelligence, separable from IQ.
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Turtles, Counting Down
If we live in a simulation, we're a lower-fidelity copy — and the copy always leaks. A walk down the ladder of realities to the indivisible Monad, and the question of whether 'down' was just the slow part of a circle back up.
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