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Every piece of my home automation already worked. The only broken thing was that none of them talk to each other. So I built the dashboard myself. 4 Sept
Overwatch: One Home Automation Dashboard to Rule Them All 4 Sept
Chapter 24.1: The Third Row Eleven people know there are three founders, not two. Their lawyer cuts every promise. These are the people trying to save her. "Sh… 3 Sept
Chapter 23.1: The Third Chair An FBI agent counts three chairs at a bench in the empty Basalt lab. Payroll says two people worked there, and the third name on… 2 Sept
Chapter 22.1: The Log Dolores has worked the same hospital basement for twenty-two years. This morning a pump refuses a firmware update it would have accepted… 31 Aug
Chapter 20.1: The Long Drive Three founders Seth backed have gone dark. One texted him at 3 a.m. and stopped answering. He rehearses what he will say if Marcus… 31 Aug
A reader emailed to say he was getting tired of the setting. He was right, so I'm adding 40 chapters to Zero Knowledge - 23 of them inside the part that's alre… 30 Aug
Chapter 43: Out Loud Marcus is offered eight hours on a quantum computer. He pays by promising never to sell what his team built. Vlad asks what he gave away.… 30 Aug
Chapter 42: The List Marcus runs the numbers: ten billion in labor. Then he thinks through potential buyers for one that is safe. "It takes four minutes to loa… 30 Aug
I spent four days building the machinery around my novel instead of writing it. A dashboard that turns reader notes into published edits, two websites that exi… 30 Aug
Chapter 41: E. Voss An overnight block on a machine in Ohio is booked under their board member's name. Samantha cannot prove it is her and answers anyway. She… 28 Aug
Chapter 40: Lead Time A foreign operative reads parts shortages to time the emergency. The model said nineteen weeks; now it says twenty days. So the call goes… 27 Aug
Chapter 39: Fifteen A stranger indexes eleven terabytes of stolen data. Vlad types his mother's street into it. Marcus asks why anyone would dump it all now. "… 26 Aug
Chapter 38: Speaker Request An MIT physicist pulls down a seminar video she promised to delete two years ago. Two dots on a chart told her what her friend did.… 22 Aug
New chapter. A man dies standing in line outside a credit union in Tampa. Sixty-eight, five hours in the sun, and they are calling it a medical event. One of m… 22 Aug
New chapter. A man empties a credit union account and puts nineteen thousand dollars in a coffee can on his refrigerator. The teller had to get the manager. He… 21 Aug
For a decade now, the Startup Benchmarks Report (which you might remember as the OpenView SaaS report) has been a critical tool for founders trying to understa… 20 Aug
I'd been playing Claude slot-machine - feeding it and moving it along instead of thinking about each problem I was trying to solve. So I took a week off, read… 17 Aug
Chapter 35 of Zero Knowledge is live. Two of them can carry it. A third breaks the arithmetic. So somebody gets sent down to the creek. 9 Aug
In 1492 an abbot wrote a defense of copying manuscripts by hand. He had it printed. 9 Aug
The Argument Against AI Writing Is At Least 2,400 Years Old 9 Aug
New chapter of Zero Knowledge. She spent the night working out who to trust with it. They spent the night working out that knowing it would get her killed. 9 Aug
What the Actual Fuck, Carl 26 Jul
Zero Knowledge: Twenty Chapters In 24 Jul
Read Zero Knowledge As I Write It 19 Jun
RIP Josh Baer 17 Jun
Does the Rule of 40 Work for Hardware? 15 Jun
Writing a Novel with Phin Argofy 14 Jun
Phil Weiser For Colorado Governor 8 Jun
The Premise: The Lead User and the Machines That Build Machines 29 May
It's Summertime 25 May
How to Rule the World 22 May
The Cognitive Sport of Building Startups 15 May
Burn Bright, Not Out 1 May
The River 28 Apr
Give First, Build Right with Eric Ries 20 Apr
I Built a Plugin Because Anthropic Won't Stop Shipping 29 Mar
Nothing New to See Here 27 Mar
Opt-Out Is Not Consent 26 Mar
Quality 25 Mar
Burn Bright, Not Out 22 Mar Recommends
Hiking Zen: Train Your Mind in Nature 22 Mar Liked
The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life 22 Mar Liked
Capital Evolution: The New American Economy 9 Dec 2025 Loved
Give First: The Power of Mentorship 25 Nov 2025 Recommendstheir own
Enshittification 21 Nov 2025 Loved
Echoes of October 11 Oct 2025 Liked
Superagency: What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future 12 Sept 2025 Loved
AI & I 12 Sept 2025 Recommends
Ensorcelled 3 Sept 2025 Loved
The Night Slayer 3 Sept 2025 Liked
City on the Edge 3 Sept 2025 Loved
Fever Pitch: A Novel About Selling Your Vision, Raising Venture Capital, and Launching Your Startup 23 Jun 2025 Loved
The System: A Novel of the Deep State 19 Jun 2025 Loved
Little Black Classics Box Set 19 Jun 2025 Read
Carrie Soto Is Back 5 May 2025 Loved
The Big Gamble 5 May 2025 Liked
Ecosystem Arabia: The Making of a New Economy 22 Apr 2025 Recommends
Venture Adventure: Startup Fundraising Advice from Top Global Investors 22 Apr 2025 Recommends
Bandwidth: The Untold Story of Ambition, Deception, and Innovation that Shaped the Internet Age and Dot-Com Boom 10 Jan 2025 Loved
Unshackled: A Practical Guide For Highly-Skilled Immigrants To Thrive In The United States 17 Jul 2023 Recommends
Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process 21 May 2023 Loved
Levels of the Game 21 May 2023 Loved
String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis 21 May 2023 Liked
Avid Reader: A Life 21 May 2023 Recommends