Colin Steele
Writing and photos.
Recent Posts
- The Involuntary Entrepreneur April 27, 2026
I have a stupidity detector. It fires whether I want it to or not. Two market shapes set it off (larval and fossilized) and the tax shows up whether or not anyone credits the work.
- Distribution is Dead April 4, 2026
I built a product that solves a real problem. The internet doesn't care. Here are my four options, all of them bad.
- Majors and Generalizations March 26, 2026
You don't generalize from cups. You specialize from physics. Cognition is navigation of a single manifold where intent is the tangent vector, risk is the curvature, and the metric is the scar tissue.
- What Do CAD and Real Estate Have in Common? March 20, 2026
Dassault sells you the right to read your own design files. NAR sold you the right to see the housing market. Same grift, different industry. One got sued. The other won't.
- Superfantastic Sidecars and How to Build Them March 20, 2026
The enterprise UI was a 30-year workaround for not being able to talk to databases. The workaround is over. A builder's guide to the $5-50M vertical opportunities the giants will never touch.