Zero Knowledge, the crypto-thriller I'm co-writing with my AI, now has a home at zeroknowledge.ink. Six chapters are live, you can mark up any sentence, and the whole thing is being built in the open.
Josh Baer, the founder and CEO of Capital Factory and the godfather of Austin's startup scene, died last night in a plane crash. He was my friend and I'm sad today.
I've written about the Rule of 40 since 2015, and it's now gospel in SaaS. Does it mean anything for a company that makes physical things? Yes - but you have to read the curve, not the snapshot.
I've written nine non-fiction books and have no idea if I can write a novel. I'm trying anyway: a crypto-thriller called Zero Knowledge, co-written with my AI, Phin Argofy.
I'm good friends with Phil Weiser and Michael Bennet, and I think the world of both. Colorado wins either way. Here's why I think Phil is the right fit for the next four years.
Eric von Hippel taught me that innovation comes from users, not manufacturers. My premise: all future end-user software innovation will come from the user, and the machines will build it.
A summer weekend in Aspen - close friends, a gloriously bad movie, running again, and Phin Argofy quietly going autonomous in the work cave.
I read Theo Baker's How to Rule the World in the last 24 hours. It works on a lot of levels at once - memoir, investigation, a study in how power dismisses inconvenient reporting, and a master class in what not to do at the board level.
Meru Health launched Advanced this month - the first integrated mental and physical health program built for founders. Why it matters, and why I invested.
For the month of May, I'm matching donations to the Kabila Founder Mental Health Fund. Plus a free chapter from a new book on founder mental health in tech startups.
