A place to share my ideas, thoughts and learnings around tech, brand and startups.

User Agent Agents

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

4 minute read • Published Saturday, November 2, 2024

Finding Half A Trillion Dollars For Charity

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

4 minute read • Published Thursday, October 24, 2024

Writing

The future of the writing you'll find here.

2 minute read • Published Wednesday, May 15, 2024

The Quest For Zero Maintenance - Blockchain As A Failover

Thinking about blockchain as a failover instead of a rewrite.

3 minute read • Published Tuesday, April 11, 2023

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

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?

7 minute read • Published Sunday, January 22, 2023

Fixing Tech Recruiting - A Proposal

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

3 minute read • Published Friday, December 16, 2022

Investing In Chimnie

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

4 minute read • Published Saturday, November 12, 2022

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

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.

8 minute read • Published Tuesday, May 17, 2022

Making Moogle

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.

4 minute read • Published Thursday, March 24, 2022

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

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

6 minute read • Published Wednesday, December 8, 2021

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

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.

6 minute read • Published Wednesday, December 8, 2021

Why Governments Should Act Like Venture Capitalists

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

6 minute read • Published Wednesday, December 8, 2021

The Case For Venture Studios

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.

11 minute read • Published Tuesday, November 16, 2021