"Goals are for people who want to win once. Process and standards are for people who want to win long term." ~Bob Chesney

An Unlikely Consensus When Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published his manifesto, “We Must Pace the Frontier,” on September 12, 2026, the tech world witnessed something rare: immediate, public alignment among bitter rivals. Amodei argued that recursive self-improvement and agent swarms demand an intentional slowdown. Within hours, OpenAI’...

"If ever I wanted to kill opposition by unfair means I would endow the opposition with experts. They would have so much good advice that I could be sure they would do little work." ~Henry Ford

"In tactics, the most important thing is not whether you go left or right, but why you go left or right.". ~General Alfred M. Gray Jr. (1928–2024)

Being the new guy means taking it in the teeth out there, but the first guy through the wall, he always gets bloody. Always. The new guy is often threatening not just a way of doing business, but... in some minds, it's threatening the game. But what it's really threatening is their livelihoods; threatening their jobs. It's threatening ...

Pay attention. When my team was building and deploying AI systems long before the rest of the world caught on, and as we scaled those operations across international borders, I learned a hard truth. The biggest threat to the mission wasn't the technology, the market, the competition, or capital. Those are known variables. You plan for ...

The sentiment that "without any meaningful revenue, it is hard to know what we are funding" seems misguided in the context of early-stage, or even growth stage, investing. While the ultimate goal of any for-profit enterprise is to generate revenue and profits, a rigid focus on immediate revenue often signals a misunderstanding of the m...