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about.

A small, slow body of writing on AI, the future of work, healthcare, and the case for builders from outside Silicon Valley. New essays land here when they're ready, never on a schedule.

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Outcome as a Service.
On human capital, after AI.

Software was hard to build. It is no longer hard to build. The next decade of workforce software will be sold as outcomes, not subscriptions — and the operators who win are the ones who absorb their customer's chaos instead of automating their own org chart. An operator's argument for what AI thinkers are missing.

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Published
April 2026

Length
~2,200 words

Reading time
11 minutes

Theme
AI & Building

The writing is organized around four questions I keep coming back to. They overlap more than they don't.

01

AI & Building

On building AI-native products inside regulated industries — the operator's view, not the platform's. What no-code makes possible. What models can't fix. Where the moat actually lives.

3 essays
Apr 2026
Outcome as a Service. On human capital, after AI.
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Apr 2026
Five days. Four nights. Three people.
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Apr 2026
I built a national company on Lovable. I don't know how to code.
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02

The Future of Work

Human capital after AI. The dignity of work in a system that increasingly treats it as a variable cost. What flexibility actually means when you have to make rent.

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Work fitting into your lifestyle.
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The agent is the workforce.
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03

Healthcare

Why staffing is the broken layer. Why the agencies were a workaround that hardened into infrastructure. What an AI-native healthcare workforce actually looks like — and what it can't be.

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Why staffing is the broken layer.
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The agency is the wrong intermediary.
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04

Innovation & Humanity

The case for builders from outside Silicon Valley. What technology is for. The next billion-dollar companies and the people who don't know they're going to build them yet.

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A better future, on purpose.
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