Work Notes
Rebuilding Stellar Around Conversation
For decades, software gave founders 𝘥𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘣𝘰𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴 — pages to click through, forms to fill out, workflows to manage.
But that’s not
AI Anthrotheology
Made In Our Image: The Spiritual Arc of Building AI
“Then God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.” (Genesis 1:26)
God made man in
Work Notes
The Future of Services: How AI-Enabled Operations Will Redefine Service Firms
From financial leverage to capability leverage — why owning delivery creates compounding advantage.
When General Catalyst published “The Future of Services:
Agentics Systems Design
Introduction: Agentic Systems Design
Traditional systems design assumes a world of predictable components and human operators.
But today's intelligent systems are made
How Do You Measure a Man Who Has Lost His Job?
Honoring the good men who are rebuilding life and identity in today's turbulent times...
I've been
Why We Really Build in Public (And Why It Matters More Than Ever)
"Building in public" isn't what it used to be.
Just two years ago, sharing your work-in-progress
AI Anthrotheology
AI and the Future of Human Connection... What It Will Reveal About Us
We often ask whether AI will replace human connection. But perhaps the more important question is whether AI will reveal
How Leading AI Teams Are Engineering Context at Scale
Leading AI teams at Anthropic, Manus, and Cognition are solving agents that break after dozens of tool calls. Lance Martin reveals battle-tested techniques keeping production AI systems coherent through hundreds of interactions—from smart offloading to multi-agent coordination.
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Context Engineering: Why Production AI Needs More Than Prompt Engineering
A new AI discipline is reshaping how we build production systems. Context Engineering goes beyond simple prompting to solve the complex information management challenges that break real-world applications—and it's creating an entirely new community of practitioners.
AI
Inventive vs Generative: Why AI Can’t Truly Invent
While AI is busy burning tokens remixing the past, the best of us are inventing the future.
AI
Software Is Using Us Now
Software used to serve us.
Now it uses us — not passively, but actively.
AI agents engage, escalate, and rely on humans to complete their mission.
We’re no longer just users. We’re becoming part of the system.
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Now — Summer 2025
Right now, I’m building systems, tools, and interfaces for a future where AI agents work alongside humans.
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It Is Good
Being Complete in the Midst of Incompletion...
Newsletter
The Era of Nearly Free Labor: The 3 ‘C’s to Succeed
And no — ‘ChatGPT’ is NOT one of them.
Being Observed
On 'Highs' & 'Lows'
I was at a recent gathering with some dear friends… and we got down to sharing the ‘highs’ and ‘lows’
Newsletter
Content. After Death.
How to prolong life with good content
Newsletter
5 Dangerous and Awful-sounding Principles for Life
The Birthday Post
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First Day. Second Chance.
Why I believe New Year's Day is special to us all.
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