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LatestSeptember 25, 2026Speed is a buyer's metric, not a learning outcomeAny ed-tech pitch gets to speed eventually. Faster to mastery. Two hours a day. Ten times the pace.Read edition

September 18, 2026One idea, one URL, two AI policy products — and two free toolsAt 22:15 on Wednesday, an idea went into a box. By 06:46 on Thursday, it was a product with a price.
September 11, 202653% of your agent's rules survive one compactionI've argued for a while that the most important code I write isn't application code. It's the harness — the standing instructions, the permissions, the rules a system carries from…
September 4, 2026Taste used to be a byproduct. Now it's a curriculum.One sentence this week did more work than most essays.
July 25, 2026The code you didn't write is still yours to understandSomething got named this week that I've been circling for a while without a word for it.