Topic · Writing
Essays & First Principles.
First-principles essays on AI, autonomy, and the future of work — where the technology is actually going, and how a builder thinks about it. "Tony Stark, not Elon Musk."
7 posts
019 MIN·UPDATED · JUN 2026Human + Machine: The Collaboration I'm Betting On
I don't bet on machines replacing people or people resisting machines. Every company I run is a wager that human judgment plus machine execution wins.
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028 MIN·UPDATED · JUN 2026On Focus: The Real Meta-Skill for Builders
In 2020 I turned down about €3M of outsourcing work to bet everything on one product. Deciding what not to do is the meta-skill that makes every other bet pay off.
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038 MIN·UPDATED · JUN 2026What Teenage Robotics Taught Me About Building
At 15 I won a US State Department scholarship, found FIRST robotics in Minnesota, and started Ukraine's first team. Here is what building robots as a kid taught me.
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049 MIN·UPDATED · JUN 2026Autonomy and the Future of Work: The Dull Parts
When machines take the dull, dangerous, repetitive work, the real question isn't whether jobs vanish. It's what humans get promoted to: judgment, taste, and direction.
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059 MIN·UPDATED · JUN 2026Where AI Agents Are Actually Going (And Where Hype Is Wrong)
Autonomy is won in the infrastructure around the model, not the model itself. I separate what is genuinely shipping from what is still just a demo.
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068 MIN·UPDATED · JUN 2026The Case for UBI, From Someone Building the Automation
I build autonomous drones and AI that replace human work. That is exactly why I argue for universal basic income — I see the curve from inside.
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078 MIN·UPDATED · JUN 2026Tony Stark, Not Elon Musk: My Philosophy of Building
I build because I love the machine itself, not to own a movement. Here's the engineer-first philosophy behind a decade of autonomous-drone hardware that had to survive reality.
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