The AI Stack I Actually Use to Build
Not the tools I’ve heard about — the ones that survived on my machine. A working founder’s honest map of which AI does which job, and the input method almost nobody talks about.
Essays and shorter notes on building, judgment, and the frontier of technology — written as I work through them, and published when they’re ready.
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The Real Reason Nuclear Is Back: AI’s Electricity Bill
The hottest trade in deep tech isn’t a chatbot — it’s a power plant. Why every major AI company is suddenly buying nuclear, and what the rush reveals about where the real bottleneck now sits.
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Your One-Person Company Now Has an Org Chart
Garry Tan open-sourced the exact setup he uses to ship like a twenty-person team while running Y Combinator. Strip away the hype, and it reveals the real unlock of agentic engineering — and it isn’t the code.
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Build a Second Brain to Run Your Company
Founders don’t drop balls because they’re careless — they drop them because everything lives in their head. Here’s how to build an external brain in Obsidian that remembers, so you don’t have to.
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How to Start Competing at Tennis as an Adult
I picked up a racket at 33 and started competing in my late thirties — on an actual world tour. Here’s how adult competitive tennis works, and why the scoreboard teaches you more about life than the winning ever does.
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The Two Languages I’d Tell Any Non-Coder Founder to Learn
You don’t need a computer science degree to build. You need two languages that punch far above their weight — one that lets you think and talk to AI, one that ships to every screen your users own.
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How to Raise Money When You Have No Revenue
The fundraising playbook everyone quotes was written for software. If you’re building something genuinely hard — deep tech, hardware, science — the ARR-and-growth-rate advice actively works against you. Here’s what to sell instead.
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Fundraising Is a Sale, Not a Favor
The founders who raise well aren’t the ones with the best deck. They’re the ones who understand that fundraising is storytelling under pressure — and that every “no” is part of the job description.
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The Family Business Curse, and How to Break It
Most family fortunes don’t survive three generations — and the thing that kills them is rarely a bad business decision. It’s the absence of governance. What families across India, the UK, Europe, and the US do to beat the odds.
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India Made Giving Back the Law. Here’s How to Do It Well.
India is the only major country that legally requires big companies to give back — 2% of profits, every year. But a mandate can quietly turn generosity into a tick-box. Here’s the difference between spending the money and actually changing something.