June 5, 2026 Notes

The 100x Engineer Left. Build Anyway.

The 100x engineer is real, and Toronto keeps losing him to the Valley. But the geniuses moved to California to build the tools you now run…

June 5, 2026 Notes

Geographical handicap

I started my company in Toronto twenty-eight years ago, and where you build is a handicap. Not a wall, a tax, and the founder who gets…

June 4, 2026 Notes

Why I named it iKilonova

A kilonova forges the universe's rarest elements. That's the bet behind this practice — and behind this moment in AI.