Now
A snapshot of what I'm curious about these days.
Current Focus
Building a better personal knowledge system
Last updated2026-07-15
AI feels like the biggest shift I'll experience in my career, so I'm trying to understand it past the demos and the hype. Less "how do I prompt better." More "how does this change the economics of software, work, and small business over the next decade."
I don't have answers yet. I'm collecting better questions.
Reading
Bouncing between blogs and books this month.
Blogs
- Paul Graham's essays, for writing about building things that matter, not just startups.
- Simon Willison, for practical, in-public experimentation with AI and software.
- Ethan Mollick, for how AI actually changes everyday work rather than replacing it.
- Ben Thompson's Stratechery, for the business-strategy lens on why tech companies win or lose.
- Gwern's long-form essays, for what careful internet research looks like, though not because I agree with all of it.
On my desk
- The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman
- Co-Intelligence by Ethan Mollick
- Code by Charles Petzold
- The Mythical Man-Month by Fred Brooks
Trying to build fundamentals instead of chasing every new release.
Thinking about
A few trends I'm watching, because I think they'll matter over the next few years:
- AI becoming infrastructure, not just a product
- Small teams building what used to take dozens of people
- Software getting cheaper to build while distribution gets more valuable
- Knowledge work shifting from finding information to asking good questions
I'm curious which of these hold up.