My Writing

Measure of AI

Essays on how to build, think, and stay valuable in the AI economy

Read every essay on Substack

WTF is Sovereign AI?

Should I care?

Short Your Own Product

How to fix per-seat pricing in the age of AI

You Can't Sell The Best Thing AI Does

So what can you sell?

Case Study: AI Found 29% More Breast Cancers by Not Replacing Doctors

The breast-screening trial that proved AI can help find cancer

Do AI Products Have a Moat?

Where defensibility of your product actually comes from.

If AI Removes Junior Jobs, Who Becomes the Seniors?

What does the world look like when young people can't train up?

Case Study: Zillow's $500M Mistake in Trusting Their Model

When you let the model's make decisions with money, you better have strong guardrails in place.

Robots & Babies - Part 2

Is there any hope in a world where robots and children know each other as peers?

Robots & Babies - Part 1

We're staring down the barrel of population collapse!

How AI Pilots Get Killed at the Budget Review

When you measure the wrong metric, even great things look bad.

The AI Hype is Real - And Also a Bubble

The money is funding amazing tech, but they are building faster than anyone can use it.