My Blogs

June 15, 2026

Building a "Perfect" To-Do List

GTD told you to do anything under two minutes immediately so it never hit your list. In a world where Slack and AI generate tasks faster than you can act, that rule breaks. A perfect to-do list isn''t one that holds more — it''s one that shows less.

June 10, 2026

Agents Are a Product, Not a Sum

An agent is context times intelligence times abilities. The industry keeps pushing the middle factor while the other two starve, and in a product the weakest factor caps everything.

May 19, 2026

Why I Was Wrong About Vertical Agents

I used to think vertical agents were 95% model and 5% wrapper, and therefore doomed. The framing felt sharp because it was simple. It was wrong because it confused where the intelligence lives with where the value lives.

May 11, 2026

You Don't Actually Need Multi-Agents

Most 'multi-agent' products are repeating the 2010s cloud industry's mistake — treating agents as named, irreplaceable individuals. The real design lever isn't another agent. It's the workspace they share and the scheduler that disposes of them.

May 7, 2026

UI Is HITL

The dominant story says smarter agents mean thinner UI, with chat as the endgame. I think the opposite. Forms, grids, and sliders are not legacy scaffolding — they are the highest-bandwidth way to keep a human in the loop, and the cockpit through which we steer increasingly capable models.

May 1, 2026

Every Agent Is a Coding Agent

Anthropic accidentally proved the universal thesis: a coding agent is the shape of every knowledge-work agent. There is no vertical intelligence to build — only vertical distribution. Stop training the brain; build the rails.

April 30, 2026

AGI Is a Rising Tide, Not a Moment

AGI was never going to arrive on a Tuesday. It is a waterline that keeps creeping up — already past customer support, climbing through engineering and law, lapping at the feet of researchers. By most honest yardsticks, it is already here.

February 9, 2026

OpenClaw and the Shape of a Wider Circle

OpenClaw’s real contribution is not raw capability but packaging that broadens adoption, plus config-as-code that turns agent memory into an asset you can own, evolve, and eventually trade.

February 8, 2026

Why I Skip ChatGPT Memory

I want my context to be portable and debuggable, not shaped by a platform I can’t see or control.

February 7, 2026

Context First: Lessons from Mario Zechner and the Pi Agent

Mario Zechner builds the Pi agent framework with ruthless minimalism, and his writing convinced me that context discipline and externalized state beat feature-heavy agent shells.