Notes and Essays
Payments, fintech infrastructure, technology, markets, and ideas worth revisiting.
Payments, fintech infrastructure, technology, markets, and ideas worth revisiting.
The tools becoming available as open source are extraordinary. Combine them with AI, and those ideas sitting in the drawers of your brain start looking a lot more achievable.
Cross-border calls made me want more than a row of clocks. So I built Meridian Clock: a private, offline world clock and time zone converter that handles daylight-saving edge cases.
AI is changing the value of old consulting models. DealHarbor is my answer: a curated marketplace for regulated finance listings, brokers, and solution providers.
Graham Hancock’s conversation on The Diary Of A CEO is a fascinating interview, and it sent me back to a book of his I already had on my shelf.
AI coding is making it possible for regular people to turn ideas into working software, businesses, tools, and services by simply describing what they want.
A personal rant on artificial intelligence, the old sci-fi warnings of Skynet and rogue machines, and why local models may matter more than we think.
What if the Big Bang was like launching an old compressed computer file, unpacking into galaxies, planets, civilizations, and everything we call reality?
Unlimited OCR from Baidu is an open-source local document parser that turns PDFs into Markdown and works to preserve the structure and meaning inside complex pages.
I found a Kimi Swarm use case called The Impact No. 01, a beautiful mechanical document editor with assembly, cutaway, sound, and tactile typing.
Book-to-skill turns books, PDFs, manuals, and document collections into reusable agent skills that can be invoked while you work.