TEP: Technology, Education and Policy

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

Rework has always been most of the work. What changed is that generation outran review, and the two things everyone is buying more of are making it…

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

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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April 2026

Co-Dialectic v4 is live — your AI is only as good as the conversation

Elevate your communication with AI in 10 days

Apr 28 • The Why Man

Defense in Depth, Part 2: Five Things I Got Wrong About LLM Reviewers

Why same-family review can become a closed loop — and how one cheap Gemini-Flash pass caught what three same-family reviewers approved.

Apr 23 • The Why Man

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Technology, Education and Policy Substack

Apr 13 • The Why Man

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March 2026

The Language Bridge: Why Learning to Talk to Machines Is the Most Human Thing You Can Do

I spent 6,000 hours trying to answer two questions about AI. The answers changed how I think about being human.

Mar 24 • The Why Man

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