Writing
Thoughts on running, building products, and angel investing. Published on Substack.
Curious about Innovation
Gaming is the world's most underrated R&D lab. From Flickr and Slack to the GPUs now powering AI, the industry keeps pressure-testing the technology and founders that go on to reshape everything else.
I ran out of phone data
Burning through my monthly data allowance on AI tools points to a bigger trend. Mobile traffic is surging because of AI, but telcos aren't capturing the upside. The value is flowing to the AI platforms and infrastructure builders instead.
What Jevons' Paradox Says About AI's Future
A 160-year-old economic principle says efficiency gains don't shrink demand, they expand it. Cheap, efficient AI inference won't reduce how much compute the world uses. It'll go looking for jobs that used to be too expensive to hand to a model.
The Marginal Cost of Innovation is Going to Zero
Grab Your Harness!
Everyone's been watching the models get smarter. Bigger context windows, stronger reasoning, better instruction-following. But that's only half the story. The more important question is what turns a model into something people actually use. The answer is the harness.
Compounding: Creation, and Quiet Destruction
Compounding is one of the most powerful forces in the world. At its best it builds wealth, knowledge, and trust, slowly at first and then all at once. But compounding is indifferent. It doesn't care whether it's amplifying something true or false, good or bad. That's where it becomes dangerous.
Ultra66: One Kilometre for Every Year
I ran 66km to mark my mother's 66th birthday and raise money for a cancer support charity. Cars beeping, people clapping from doorsteps, strangers cheering from the side of the road. We raised over €18,500.
The Future of Productivity
Productivity is output per head. It has always been driven by tools and technology. The question now is whether brain-computer interfaces like Neuralink represent the next leap — and whether humans can stay relevant alongside AI.
Do You Want to Achieve Perfection?
Shokunin, the Japanese pursuit of perfection for some greater good. Through Bob Iger and legendary sushi chef Jiro Ono, a case for what mastery actually looks like when you commit to it completely.