Notes on AI, cloud & building.
The prompts that actually moved the needle
he prompts that moved the needle weren't sharper task instructions. They were six repeated steering moves, from plan-first to anchoring in your values.
Know Your Superpower
Companies with two genuinely different dominant categories are extremely > rare. What looks like a second superpower is almost always one power applied to a >…
The AI Maturity Model
AI maturity models grade how well you adopt AI internally. That is the wrong axis. What decides survival is whether your product has climbed from selling…
Software Is No Longer the Moat
AI made software buildable by almost anyone, so the software itself is no longer a moat. Call it the SaaSpocalypse. The advantage moves to distribution, trust,…
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…
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…
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.