Writing

Essays on AI agents, trust, and building.

• 2026Next stepsI believe that in the future, software will become disposable and businesses will just build their internal tooling instead of buying vertical SaaS. One way to…
• 2026Cool graph on the current landscape of AI startupsGraph on YC startup landscape shifts
• 2026Pattern breaker thoughtsPattern Breakers is a good framework to think through the recent changes in startups with. It boils down to this: 1. Inflections: External shifts such as new…
• 2026Thoughts on the current landscape of startupsInteresting times. Overarching theme of startups right now is this: software is becoming disposable, and the agent economy (where agents are economic actors)…
• 2026Thoughts and questions on business spam protocolsHey everyone! I’ve been doing some thinking on business spam and wanted to get your opinion on something. Business messaging technology has witnessed very…
• 2026Chert Biztext - spam that people wantBiztext is the business messaging protocol that proactively delivers spam people want. It does this through a single intermediary agent that has context on…
• 2026The Future of Messaging is ProtocolChat and messaging is possibly the most important piece of software/technology in all of our lives. However, it is also the vertical with the slowest…
• 2025The Chert ThesisWhy AI agents need a layer of trust — and how that turns an 8B market into a 50B one.