Someone mentioned John Gustafson to me today. I looked him up. And within about five minutes, I had one of those deeply humbling moments when you realize there's an entire person, body of work, and foundational argument sitting directly inside your intellectual field of vision — and somehow you've never seen it. Not forgotten it. Not vaguely encountered it years ago. Missed it entirely. John L. Gustafson. Gustafson's Law. Massively parallel computing. Sandia National Laborato

I found this on TikTok. That's not a sentence I expected to write, but here we are. A guy on TikTok — I don't remember his name, which is the TikTok economy working as designed — said to go to your ChatGPT and ask it one question: What's my ikigai? I didn't know what ikigai was. I learned the definition about five minutes before I typed the prompt. Ikigai is a Japanese concept that roughly translates to "a reason for being" — the intersection of what you love, what you're goo

Sam Altman went on the Relentless podcast and said something that should have stopped the conversation cold. "We are now in the singularity. This is the moment." Not someday. Not in a decade. Not when we achieve some agreed-upon benchmark. Now. This is the moment. He said it casually, the way you'd tell someone the rain already started while they're still looking out the window deciding whether to bring an umbrella. And then he described what that actually feels like from ins

I'm sitting at my friend Rolf's house right now. We're about to head to dinner — sharing a birthday celebration, because his was recent and mine is coming up, and at a certain point in life you stop doing separate parties and just combine them. It's more efficient and frankly the wine is better when someone else is paying. Rolf has been in the yacht business for thirty years. High-end marine, rich-guy-toy business. Boats, deals, clients who buy things that cost more than hous

VaporVault Got a Complete Makeover. Here's What's New. A couple of years ago I wrote about VaporVault as a concept. A private, offline, encrypted vault you physically own — no cloud, no subscription, no company holding a copy of your stuff. The idea was right. The implementation was held together with Arduino duct tape. Version 4.2.1 is a different product. Not an update. A rebuild. And I think it's finally at the point where I can talk about it without the asterisk. Let me s

OpenProfile Update: The First Launch Proved It Worked. This Pass Makes It Trustworthy. There is a version of a product launch article I could write that focuses on the new feature count, the lines changed, the surfaces touched. I'm not going to write that one. What I actually did since the OpenProfile launch was less exciting and more important. I made the thing stable. When you launch something real — not a demo, not a pitch deck, but an actual product with real users openin

It's 12:30 a.m. on a Friday and I'm writing this instead of sleeping, which is apparently just what Beacon does to me. This started as a weekend experiment. A tiny Wi-Fi server. Wearable, sort of. Useful, maybe. I wanted to see what would happen if you could wear a Wi-Fi network the way you wear a name tag — except the name tag loads a webpage, and the webpage is you. That was the origin. Ankle monitors, a real estate agent's jaw drop at a networking event, a food truck disco

Ben Broca launched Polsia in late 2025. One founder. No employees. A system of AI agents that plans, codes, markets, and runs companies around the clock. Within a month, he crossed $1 million in annualized revenue with over 1,000 companies running on the platform. A month after that, $3 million ARR, 3,000 companies. Last count, something like $10 million run rate, thousands of businesses on the platform, and a $30 million Series A at a $250 million post-money valuation — rais

I filed a provisional patent in November 2024 for something I called "System and Method for Digital Business Cards." The idea was simple: tap a card, get someone's contact info on your phone instantly, no app required. I built it, called it Tap2Space, put it on Wix, and ran it as a real business for about two years. Over 100 real clients, custom-designed cards, a physical NFC card and keychain fob included. It worked. People paid for it. Some of them are still using the cards

I watched a clip on TikTok this week of a woman explaining her business to a host, and I need to talk about it, because it's one of the best real-world examples I've seen of exactly what I've been saying since 2023 — and it's also proof of something most people building with AI right now don't want to hear. What She Actually Built She sells custom GPTs — the ones you build on a standard $20/month ChatGPT account — to coaches, founders, and consultants. She's doing around $100

I want to show you something my team and I just shipped, because I think it's the clearest proof yet of what I've been building toward with ARIA. Over the past week we launched four media properties: The Daily Quantum The Daily MicroCap The Daily Biologics Petides Direct Four completely different brands. Four different audiences — quantum computing professionals, micro-cap investors, biotech operators, and pet owners researching peptide therapy. Look at them side by side and

Right now, somewhere, a defense planner is looking at a drone that can identify, track, and fire on a target in under a millisecond — faster than any human operator could possibly approve the shot — and deciding whether to cut the human out of the loop entirely. Not because they want to. Because they've concluded that if they don't, and their adversary does, they lose. That decision is being made in conference rooms this year, not in a science fiction script. I've written bef

On Wednesday, two climbers named Angela Nikolau and Ivan Beerkus scaled the antenna of the Empire State Building, 1,454 feet up, no ropes, no tether — just a narrow ledge and a lot of nerve. They unfurled a black banner with a line widely attributed to Jimi Hendrix: "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." Then Ivan pulled a ring out of his backpack, got down on one knee, and proposed. Then they got arrested. It was, by any measure, one

I need to start with a confession. I make fun of this format constantly. The listicle. The countdown. The "5 reasons you're leaving money on the table" TikTok with the guy pointing at floating text. The LinkedIn carousel that says "most people don't know this 🧵" and then numbers things you already knew. I have mocked this format in conversation, in articles, probably in my sleep. And yet here I am. Because sometimes the format fits the content, and I'd rather be a little hyp

I've been watching a specific pattern play out across every major technology transition of the last twenty years. It doesn't announce itself. It doesn't come with a press release. It shows up in the data first — quietly, then all at once — and by the time the mainstream conversation catches up, the window for early positioning has already closed. I'm watching it happen again right now with agentic AI. And the specific place it's showing up most clearly is in how businesses ge

Today the White House dropped two executive orders simultaneously. One to build the most powerful quantum computer in human history. One to protect everything we have from what that computer will eventually be able to destroy...Read that twice. The same administration. The same day. One order to accelerate the technology. One order to defend against it. That's not contradiction — that's strategy. And it tells you everything you need to know about where we are on the quantum t

Anthropic just got blessed by the Pope. Take a second with that sentence. Because I promise you, nobody writing AI forecasts five years ago had that on their bingo card. This week, Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah met with the Vatican as part of a formal ethical collaboration between the lab and the Catholic Church. Not a photo op. Not a brief handshake. An actual working partnership around the moral implications of artificial intelligence. The world's most consequential

Plato's cave. An 80-year-old unsolved math problem. Bell Labs. And what happens when something finally turns around and sees the fire. A meditation on the structure of knowledge — and what AI just revealed about the cave we've been sitting in.

I want to show you what 90 days of consistent execution actually looks like. Not a course. Not a strategy deck. Not a pitch. Real numbers from my real businesses — and a clear explanation of exactly how the system behind them works. Where This Started About three years ago I wrote a post called Advanced Prompting: My Growing Staff for the Modern Era. It was an early sketch of what I was building — AI personas functioning as specialized staff across different domains. Jordan t

The On-Ramp Problem Nobody Is Building For I'm dictating this through an earpiece. Not because it's novel. Not to make a point. It's just become how I work. At some point in the last year, my primary interface shifted away from a monitor, a mouse, and a keyboard toward something closer to a conversation that follows me from device to device. I get responses back in audio. I think out loud. The model listens, processes, and keeps up. It fits inside the life I already have and