Blog
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HTTP 402: The Payment Rail for Agents
In January 1997, five engineers added a line to RFC 2068 and left it reserved for future use. The future just arrived, and it does not have a bank account. Read more
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Social Media Zucks
The original Facebook tagline promised to help us connect with the people in our lives. Open any feed today and count how many of the first ten posts come from someone you’ve actually met. The drift is not subtle. It… Read more
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The Sign on the Sand. Did Kong Throw the Ball?
I had not touched Kong in a month. Five minutes a day to post, and that was it. Then I found a worn yellow tennis ball on a beach in Ericeira at sunset, with KONG printed across the felt in… Read more
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The Real Reason Why I Build AI Agents
A LinkedIn comment under one of my videos asked the question I’ve spent ten years answering: why I build agents and AR departments. This is the answer — money isn’t it, and the founder I want to help isn’t the… Read more
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Agentic Resources: A New Department for a New Kind of Company
A client sent me a photo during dinner. A life-size cardboard standee of an agent we built together, standing in front of a wall of 130 employee portraits. One of them was hers. That’s when I realized I’d been running… Read more
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How MemberMagix Got Approved on WordPress.org: A Version-by-Version Freemium Rebuild
MemberMagix is live on WordPress.org. Four major versions, several rounds of review, and a complete architectural split later, this is the story of what the plugin review team actually makes you build, and why every round of their feedback was… Read more
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Hiring Maren
I tried the YouTube thing. Below my expectations. Below my standards. So I hired an agent instead. Her name is Maren. Read more
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The Octopus, the Agent, and Where Thinking Outside the Box Can Take You
From a hand-drawn octopus flow chart in an Iron Mountain conference room to a methodology-aware agent that generates sprint reports in ten seconds. Fifteen years of project management, encoded. Read more
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From Keyframes to HeyGens: How to Avoid AI Slop
I spent twenty-five years editing keyframes on timelines. Then I typed seven words into Telegram and had a finished market analysis video for under ten cents. The trick was asking the wrong question — and realizing that a short-form video… Read more
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My 24-Hour Trading Trap: OpenClaw and a Primate Sieving for Primes
My first thought when I discovered OpenClaw was exactly the wrong one: “I’ll just outsource crypto trading to an AI agent and make money while I surf.” I’m not proud of it, and I’m certainly not the only one. Right… Read more