Writing
A current series on intent engineering — what software discipline looks like when agents are in the loop. Plus a curated archive going back to 2009 covering architecture, founder lessons, and blockchain.
Current Series
The opening argument: Gherkin's Given–When–Then is not a testing curiosity, it's a primitive for specifying intent in a way both humans and agents can act on. A reframing of behavior-driven development for the era of coding agents.
More articles in the series will be added as they publish on LinkedIn and Medium.
Archive · Foundations
On why platform abstraction is the durable bet. Written when "cloud" still meant something specific — the argument has aged better than expected.
Risk management for software architects working with offshore teams. The principles transfer cleanly to AI agents.
A fifteen-year-old argument for design-by-contract that turns out to be exactly the right primitive for working with coding agents.
On hype cycles and what early-stage adoption of a paradigm actually looks like — written when cloud was where AI is now.
Archive · Founder & Business
How a personal experience with credit-reporting errors led to founding Alekto and what the lean-startup grind actually feels like from the inside.
On the early-era Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and what an actually adversarial regulator looks like in practice.
The reflexive narrative blames the consumer. The data tells a more uncomfortable story about macro forces and structural risk.
A field note from Triangle Startup Factory's rebrand and what it taught me about positioning a brand against its own history.
Archive · Blockchain
On a quiet form of consumer banking risk and why non-custodial wallets exist. A foundational piece behind the Block Boys channel.
A series of reviews of bitcoin-era documentaries, including Deep Web, the Ross Ulbricht story, and the cultural moment they captured.
Financial-literacy education and blockchain explainers on YouTube. Why depositing money makes you an unsecured creditor — and what to do about it.