I Sold My Adobe Shares. Now I'm Building My Own Lightroom.
In June, I bought Adobe shares. The stock had taken quite a beating, and I got in at around $209. I simply thought it had fallen too far. At the end of July, I…
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AI, software, companies — notes from the workbench and the long game.
I Didn't Buy the Three-Fold. I'm Probably Buying the Duo.
Last year in Shenzhen (last week in October, almost a year ago), dinner with a couple of friends and two of the factory owners. One of them is probably worse…
She Thought It Was Another Hard Drive
My Wife Thinks I Bought Another Hard Drive My wife walked past the desk this morning, noticed the latest addition and said "oh you bought another hard drive"…
The Week the Labs Asked Us to Slow Down
Last weekend I put on Terminator 2 again. Same thought that had been sitting with me all week while I read about labs and agents and “pacing the frontier.” Me…
AMDs Threadripper Halo Station
AMD’s Threadripper Halo Station and NVIDIA’s DGX Station just showed up next to the Mac Studio M5 Ultra decision. A side-by-side on memory, bandwidth, power, and price for anyone weighing a personal supercomputer this year.
The Paperwork Is the Product
Running companies inside the EU means living under a permanent drizzle of new rules.
Schools Are Doing the Calculator Thing Again
Schools want to ban AI the way they once wanted to ban calculators. Meanwhile my ten-year-old runs two animal-facts sites and reads every night — because we built him an app that turned reading into a game.
A CFO Lets AI Build His Software
Build-vs-buy used to be a finance question. AI agents turned it into a judgement question — and it changed how I read every SaaS multiple.
