Thoughts
Essays and notes on building products.
OpenAI's First Hardware Is a Satisfying Desk Companion
24 July 2026It's not the AI device everyone is waiting for, and that's fine.
I Built My First App in Half a Day
9 May 2026From idea to working app in an afternoon.
The AI Layer That Actually Makes Money
6 May 2026Jensen Huang's five-layer cake, and where the opportunity really is.
From Ideas to Distribution: What Five Years Building an AI Startup Taught Me
13 April 2026What five years of building an AI startup taught me.
what this path costs
12 October 2025one of the saddest side effects of being a founder is that you can't really make friends at work.
Notes from the Future: My Two Days at AWE
17 June 2025Two days at the Augmented World Expo, the heart of the spatial computing universe.
Creating the future, not just predicting it.
12 May 2025One of the things we love most at Envision is being at the bleeding edge of technology.
This is going to hurt
17 December 2024They warned me that starting a venture would be painful. They said it would be hard, stressful, and lonely.
stretching one moment out into a thousand
18 September 2022reflecting on acceptance and denial of mortality
why i liked The Batman
6 March 2022On Pattinson's Batman, and what the movie gets right.
The road to a rewarding rejection.
25 February 2019What we learnt while trying to get into Y Combinator?
The need for AI-friendly designs
14 June 2017Why we should start considering AIs as users.
Travel Note #3: Auschwitz, where humanity failed.
22 May 2016Visiting the camp, and what it leaves you with.
Travel Note #2: Bruges is a fucking fairytale
2 March 2016A day in the best preserved medieval town in Europe.
Travel Note #1: What makes Sweden fascinating.
1 March 2016Feeding the wolves of wanderlust, starting in Sweden.
Why my grandpa didn't invent the car?
28 April 2014And why is it so important to define problems?