Schooling as an organisational problem not a technology one.

Where Do You Go To Learn?

Exploring a shift to natural language APIs, an interface mediated by local models representing users and server based models representing enterprises.

User Agent Agents

Early Bequest Accounts - unlocking half a trillion dollars of dry powder for charitable giving in the US by risk pooling future bequests.

Finding Half A Trillion Dollars For Charity

The future of the writing you'll find here.

Writing

Thinking about blockchain as a failover instead of a rewrite.

The Quest For Zero Maintenance - Blockchain As A Failover

Generative AI isn’t just an incremental change in how easily we can create content. It’s a step change that can remove the need for human involvement at all. What happens when models are cheaper, faster and more accurate at ideating and creating media than humans - and what does that mean for us?

The Future Of Online Media - How Generative AI Fundamentally Changes The Landscape

Tech recruiting sucks, but it doesn't need to, an idea on how to fix it.

Fixing Tech Recruiting - A Proposal

What does the future of property search look like? Every property listed by default, off market offers and no fees. Chimnie.

Investing In Chimnie

Proposing a blockchain consensus mechanism which pools agreement from distinct actors, uniquely identified by verifiable credentials. An approach which is potentially useful for implementing a value driven system for universal basic income.

Proof By Collective - An Identity Based Blockchain Consensus Mechanism Enabled By Verifiable Credentials

There are just under a billion cows on the planet. All of them underserved by search engines. This is the story of how I built the search engine for cows.

Making Moogle

Efficient learning is a recommendation problem that Google has the data to tackle.

Google Has The Ability To 10x Education, Here’s How

The low cost of entry, in-built voting mechanisms and a central smart contract makes DAOs a very interesting potential vehicle to build a company owned by its customers - just like a traditional co-op structure.

Owned By The Community, DAOs - A Mechanism To Implement A Co-Op Businesses

The equity based alternative for government loans, a system that creates misaligned incentives between governments and businesses.

Why Governments Should Act Like Venture Capitalists

There is a signficant frictional cost to starting something new. Venture studios present a de-risked way of doing so but are a relatively uncommon model. Here's a case for them.

I'm currently doing some agenty/analysis things @ Google, but previously I

Retreated @ Recurse

Occasionally I write, this is what I've written about recently

Where Do You Go To Learn?

User Agent Agents

Finding Half A Trillion Dollars For Charity