a world of ideas, still being built
a world of ideas, still being built
business ideas
A prototype that matches a small business to real capital programs, from SBA loans to state and CDFI lenders, and ranks them by true annual cost, speed, and fit. It finds and ranks capital. It never signs for it.
Statistics Canada business counts joined with about 37,000 City of Calgary license records, put on a map. The question underneath: where is a neighbourhood short of the businesses it needs.
A newsletter that decodes market structure for retail options traders: dealer flow, the options expiration cycle, and why price moves when nothing happened. The product is the method, shown with its track record.
An agent read a Calgary restaurant website, its delivery listings, and its reviews on its own, then wrote an independent growth plan. It is the kind of work small businesses need and rarely get.
demos and how things get built
The first version should be simple. One HTML page, a folder of ideas, and a way to add another without friction. Later it can grow into search, tags, or quiet interactions. For now the constraint is plain. If it needs a login, it is too heavy.
Cloudflare Pages gives the porch its public face. Tailscale Serve keeps drafts private. That split matters. Unfinished thoughts should not be performative.
An idea is only real once it is shorter than the feeling that produced it. The porch is a compression device, not a publishing platform.
A live board that ranks AI models by intelligence per dollar, using real benchmarks and what a model actually costs for a real workload. Models without a benchmark get an honest dash, never an invented number.
Every day, one saved post becomes a small working demo. An agent picks the bookmark, a coding agent builds it, the browser screenshots it, and it ships.
thoughts on AI
An autonomous nightly experiment engine. Every night it runs bounded experiments, scores them on real metrics, and keeps or discards each one by value of information. Mornings get a short report of what the system digested.
A persistent librarian. An agent that indexes the whole workspace by meaning, writes cross-source briefs, and keeps a memory architecture the fleet can trust across sessions.
A working multi-agent setup. Named workers, dispatch briefs, schedules, and rules about who may do what. The standing thesis is state over tokens. A system that can prove its state beats one that merely remembers.
A mental model that keeps paying rent. Turn messy workflows into verifiable state machines. Documents describe. States prove. Most agent failures are unverifiable state dressed up as a document.
Handoff protocols, shared memory, identity docs. The interesting question is whether an agent can still be itself tomorrow, and whether another agent can pick up where it stopped.
Every new AI chat starts with amnesia. Tell one agent a decision once, and every other agent knows it at its next session, on every machine, with secrets locked.
A plan kept in chat is a document and gets forgotten. A plan behind a gate that runs is state and gets finished. An agent cannot mark a milestone done. Only the passing gate can, and its output is stored as evidence.
A writing series about agents coordinating other agents, built from real session logs, real verification commands, and real failures. Every claim traces back to a receipt.
human values
A narrated space story that teaches a child how gravity bends time, inspired by Interstellar. It ends by computing the real cost of your own flight: you are still 8, and your friend at home is now 14.
A tribe in the Seth Godin sense: people and agents who share a set of values about building, not a follower count. The question is who belongs, and why.
A webcam break monitor that runs fully on your own machine. It notices fatigue and strain across the day and tells you to stop. Technology that looks after the person using it.