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Both my SaaS products were embarrassing at launch. Both found their first users anyway, because the users cared about the problem, not the polish. Building in public forced me to ship weekly and the…

I don't think there'll be a single moment — no alarm goes off. My test: a model makes a genuinely novel scientific discovery a human team would've taken years to find, and we can't…

AI is the current wave. What's next? My ranking: (1) biotech + longevity — AI is about to supercharge drug discovery; (2) robotics — AI finally gives robots a brain; (3) fusion/clean energy —…

Short answer: useful quantum advantage exists in a handful of narrow, mostly contrived problems. Practical, error-corrected machines that break RSA or design drugs are still years out — error correction is the real mountain,…

I work on automation, so this is my soapbox. The home is the hardest environment that exists: unstructured, unpredictable, full of edge cases and liability. A humanoid reliably folding your laundry is a decade-plus…

I've run paid and organic at three startups and nothing comes close to a good referral loop on CAC or retention. Referred users trust faster, churn less, and refer more. The trick is making…

Everyone fixates on quantum breaking encryption. As a materials person, I think the first real wins are in simulation: modelling molecules and materials classical computers can't. Better batteries, catalysts, fertilisers. That's a quieter revolution…

I build dev tools and dogfood agents daily. Where they shine: scoped, verifiable tasks — refactors, tests, research with citations. Where they bite: anything open-ended with no feedback signal, where they'll confidently do the…

No, not "forever". But "longevity escape velocity" — adding more than a year of life expectancy per year of research — is a serious hypothesis, not just Valley fantasy. The credible near-term story is…

The pilots — Finland, Kenya, Stockton — show the same thing: people don't stop working, mental health improves, and the money gets spent locally. The objections that survive scrutiny are about scale and funding,…

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