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Essays and series on personal and embodied AI, consumer hardware, and what it takes to make strange technology feel obvious.

★ Working thesis · 2026 Blog Post

Bridging the Skill Gap between Digital and Physical AI

...requires solving how we unlock, canonize, and act on our own personal data.

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Blog Post My Story From selling printing door-to-door at nineteen to two IPOs — the throughline is that people buy how you make them feel. May 2026 → Blog Post Lifelogging paves the way for Embodied AI Why lifelogging — capturing everyday life — could be the missing training data for truly embodied, agentic AI. May 2026 → Blog Post The Invisible Emotional Tax of Talking to Computers The hidden cognitive cost of translating what you actually want into something an AI can understand. Apr 2026 → Blog Post SelfieBot Was a Joke. The Prophecy Wasn't. How a 2014 April Fools prank in a small Boulder office quietly predicted the 2026 consumer-AI race. Apr 2026 → Blog Post Bridging the Skill Gap between Digital and Physical AI ...requires solving how we unlock, canonize, and act on our own personal data. Feb 2026 → Blog Post A Single Digital [portable] Self Your life is scattered across dozens of apps that never talk to each other — the case for one portable self you actually own. Sep 2025 → Series The Go-to-Market Guide for Acquiring SMBs SMBs are half the US workforce and still underserved — a seven-part guide to acquiring, retaining and scaling them without an enterprise sales motion. Aug 2025 → Blog Post What I Learned during my first Windup Lessons from founding, running, and winding down Whym — conversational commerce, fundraising, and finding PMF too late. Oct 2024 → Series Blind Data Podcast A four-episode series on reclaiming ownership of your personal data in an era of data monopolies. May 2023 → Series Payment Landscape Podcast A mini-series demystifying the ever-changing landscape of payment processing for founders and builders. Mar 2023 → Series Tactics on Setting Up a Successful Venture Capital Fundraising Process Six short video lessons walking through how to qualify investors, run a tight process, prepare documents, and turn rejection into insight. Nov 2021 →