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Software Isn’t One-Size-Fits-All

Why Arguments Should Work Like Software

Applying software engineering principles to intellectual discourse: versioning, testing, and composability for ideas.

Rules by Which a Great Society May Be Reduced to a Fractured One

An ancient Sage valued himself upon knowing how to make a great City of a little one. Franklin, that modern Simpleton, showed how to reduce an Empire by alienating its provinces. I, a contemporary observer, shall demonstrate how the same may be accomplished not through distance but through division—not by severing remote territories but by fracturing the very heart of society itself.

When AI Gets Its Hands

Replacing Scattered Scripts with Centralized Intelligence

Getting Software to Talk to Each Other

How to Spot Exceptional Market Opportunities

Aligning the Universe

We stand at the threshold of humanity's most profound partnership. Artificial intelligence promises to be our collaborator in solving civilization's greatest challenges—from climate change to disease, from loneliness to…

How We're Making Business Software Talk to Each Other 10x Faster

For decades, integrating data between software systems has been tedious and expensive. The Model Context Protocol changes the equation.

Who Owns AI's Ideas?

Here's a question that's about to matter a lot: when an AI helps you discover something, who gets the credit? This isn't hypothetical anymore. AI systems are writing code, finding patterns in data, even proposing new scientific hypotheses. The old frameworks for attribution—built when tools were dumb—are breaking down.

AI Assembly Line

Stop thinking of AI as a single tool, and start thinking of it as a specialized workforce.

Encapsulating Ideas

Have you ever found yourself explaining the same thing to an AI again and again?

Semantic Vessels

When you hear my words spoken through an AI-generated voice or see me represented by a digital avatar, it might feel strange at first—like something fundamental has been lost. But what’s actually happening is far more interesting. I’m not outsourcing my thinking or sacrificing authenticity; I’m experimenting with a new kind of medium.

Composable Workflows

Using Cloudflare Workers with tools like Airtable and Zapier. When organizations first explore using artificial intelligence, they usually begin by plugging AI directly into their tools. For instance, a marketing team might add an API key straight into their Airtable scripts or frontend interfaces to generate social media captions or product descriptions. On the surface, this seems quick and ef...

Minimum Viable Draft

One of the hardest things about writing isn’t writing. It’s starting. You sit there with an idea buzzing in your head, but the moment you try to write it down, it feels like it has to be perfect. Like you need the whole thing figured out before you begin. So you freeze. Or worse—you never start at all.

The Economics of Toolification

Why More Tools ≠ More Clarity We are living through an economic anomaly. Software creation, once gated by capital and engineering talent, is now virtually free. Thanks to AI code generation and no-code platforms, the marginal cost of developing digital tools has collapsed. What once required funding, a dev team, and months of planning can now be produced in a weekend by a single person with a g...

Not Another Dashboard, Please!

There was a time when building software meant knowing how to code. That era is over. Now, anyone with a decent prompt can spin up a working app in a weekend. No engineering degree. No team. Just an idea, an AI assistant, and enough persistence to keep tweaking the inputs. This should feel like a superpower. And it is—at first.

Rethinking How We Understand People

From Gut Feelings to Contextual Intelligence There was a time when baseball teams chose players the way most companies still build teams today: by gut. Scouts would watch a player swing a bat or throw a pitch and evaluate them based on a set of unspoken heuristics: “He’s got a strong arm,” “He moves like a natural,” “He looks like a winner.” These judgments were built on experience, but they we...

Was This Written by AI? Yes. And It’s Still Mine.

Intuition in a World of Unlimited Intelligence

By Rashid Azarang I used to think of intuition as a shortcut. A fast answer. A quiet knowing.

Ballup: When a System Is Trying to Grow

Most people who work with systems — whether it’s a small team, a company, or a process — learn to look for bottlenecks.

How Do We Improve How We Improve?

A gentle introduction to the most powerful question you’ve probably never asked. Most of the time, we focus on doing things well. - How can I work faster?

Second-Order Thinking

How to See What’s Beneath the Obvious We’re used to thinking in straight lines. It’s clean. It’s comforting. It feels like progress.

The Meta-Strategist: Playing Above the Game

Export Your ChatGPT Chats

Solving the Context Window Problem

Airtable MCP: How I Taught Claude to Talk Directly to My Databases

It started with Anthropic's announcement of the Model Context Protocol (MCP). As someone who loves experimenting with new tech, I was immediately fascinated by the possibilities. Here was a standardized way for AI…

Built an Airtable MCP that lets you chat with your database

Show: Knowledge Management Platform

Costly vs. expensive

Understanding the difference between “costly” and “expensive” transforms how we perceive value. “Costly” refers to a price that reflects intrinsic worth, craftsmanship, and durability. It implies attention to detail, quality materials, and longevity. For instance, a handmade chair may cost more because it’s built to last, designed with care, and crafted by skilled hands. While the upfront price...