Posts tagged #tech

10 posts

• Island of Misfit Startups: Part III (Mini Cricket) January 19, 2026

  $100 helmet-mounted edge AI that buzzes 'INCOMING DRONE' before the human ear even registers the sound.

• Island of Misfit Startups: Part II (KesslerGym) January 15, 2026

  Train your satellite AI for Tuesday in LEO with bad data. A 'messy reality' simulation environment for autonomous space traffic management.

• Island of Misfit Startups: Part I (LensReader) January 12, 2026

  Algorithmic feeds are bad for your brain. This startup is vitamins for your brain.

• Paul Graham Can Kiss My App November 4, 2025

  Why I'm intentionally building Taleway wrong (no accounts, no UI, no engagement metrics) and why that might be exactly right for 2025

• Build Bridges, Not Moats October 31, 2025

  Prognistication and contemplation of the nature of sustainable competition, circa 2025

• Apple Is a Duopolistic Predator, and I Know What Their Next Move Is October 28, 2025

  Building an ambient audio app revealed Apple's blueprint for the future, and it's not about innovation. It's about control. Here's what they're building next.

• Yes, YOU Can Have Your Very Own Sears Catalog Moment October 28, 2025

  Your website doesn't matter anymore. Your API does. AI agents are killing web traffic the same way Amazon killed Sears catalogs. Here's what happens next.

• Building with Astro January 20, 2025

  Thoughts on static site generators

• 60,000% growth in 7 months using Clojure and AWS September 1, 2012

  How we scaled from 1,000 to 600,000+ daily users with zero downtime, no late nights, and a four-person team. The architecture decisions that made it possible.

• Against the Grain: How We Built the Next Generation Online Travel Agency using Amazon, Clojure, and a Comically Small Team May 2, 2012

  The story of how we fired everyone, rewrote everything in Clojure, moved to AWS, and built a scalable OTA platform with just four developers—then got acquired by the biggest hotel chains in the world.