TEP: Technology, Education and Policy

Never Delegate Judgment. The Machine Is Further Away Than You Think.

Part two of Seven Habits of the AI World — what you should actually learn for a career in AI: judgment, and the practical method for training it.

Oct 1 • The Why Man

September 2026

Your Bunker Has an Air Intake

Billionaires are buying the wrong insurance, and the people building AI just told us why.

Sep 14 • The Why Man

Cost, Latency, Precision: How Much of the AI Tradeoff Is Real?

The Economics of Shipping AI #2 · Measure first, then decide. The 18¢ piece measured the cost bar. This one measures the latency bar. The goal never…

Sep 11 • The Why Man

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Everyone Is Asking the Wrong Question About AI

The 7 Habits of the AI World — twenty-six years, and the three words I would put on a wall.

Sep 9 • The Why Man

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August 2026

Only 18¢ of Your AI Dollar Reaches the Product. Here's How to Fix It.

The Economics of Shipping AI #1 · Measure first, then decide. This one measures the cost bar — rework has always been most of the work, and generation…

Aug 15 • The Why Man

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The Startup Moat Moved: What Every AI-Native Founder Has to Unlearn

Three months as an EIR at Andrew Ng's AI Fund — on finding the pain, the moats that are left, and how you actually build now.

Aug 11 • The Why Man

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July 2026

Why your site is invisible to ChatGPT (even when Google loves you)

Ranking on Google and being citable by AI are not the same problem — and I asked four engines the same question to prove it.

Jul 24 • The Why Man

May 2026

The Cyborg — The Exponential Advantage

What I talked about at ClawCamp — the math, the architecture, and what compounds when you stop starting over.

May 19 • The Why Man

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The Cyborg — The Customer Is No Longer Human

Notes from Health+Tech 2026 conference session on agents, attention, and what survives the transition

May 16 • The Why Man

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Invite your friends to read TEP: Technology, Education and Policy

Thank you for reading TEP: Technology, Education and Policy — your support allows me to keep doing this work.

May 12 • The Why Man

Defense in Depth, Part 3: The Variable Jury Beats Judge Didn't Control For

If cross-family review catches what same-family misses — is the real variable family, or just context? Here's the harness I built to find out, and the…

May 8 • The Why Man

The Cyborg — Your Cyborg Goes to Work

The question isn't whether your employer will give you an AI assistant. It's whose assistant it will be.

May 5 • The Why Man

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