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2026
February
Feb 06
My Mother Was Smuggling Rice at 13. AI Would Screen Her Out.
Feb 02
Why Aren't We Using AI to Save Dying Knowledge?
January
Jan 30
Make the Call
Jan 19
What Is AI Context, Really? And Why It Matters More Than the Model
2025
December
Dec 22
The Great Unbundling: Why Everyone Is Building a Stablecoin Chain (And Why Most Will Fail)
Dec 15
Sun Tzu on AI: Position, Don't Fight
Dec 12
Distributed Work, Distributed Humanity
Dec 08
Context Isn't Retrieval: Why RAG Won't Fix Agent Decision-Making
Dec 05
Post-AI World: Survivors and Casualties
Dec 01
Why AI Agents Can't Make Decisions Without Context
November
Nov 28
AI, the Punch You Don't See Coming
Nov 24
How Onchain FX Actually Works: Atomic Settlement Explained
Nov 17
The Coming Collision: Stablecoins, Tokenized Deposits, and the Fight for the Settlement Layer
Nov 11
Building in Winter
Nov 10
AI Everywhere, Rockets on Donkeys
October
Oct 06
A Mother in Lagos Sends $10. JPMorgan Sends $10M. Guess Who Pays More in Fees?
September
Sep 30
The Stablecoin Sandwich and Why Remittances Stay Expensive
Sep 23
Fintech's Real Lab Isn't Wall Street
Sep 18
JPMorgan Now Runs the Tech That Was Supposed to Kill JPMorgan
Sep 16
Safe Yield Doesn’t Exist for Stablecoins, and Savers Are Paying the Price
Sep 15
$50,000 Froze at a Nigerian Bank Counter: The Real Stablecoin Problem
Sep 11
AI Agents Already Want to Pay Each Other But They Cannot
Sep 09
Not Everything Needs a Token
Sep 08
Stablecoins Settled 30 Trillion and Institutions Finally Understand Why
Sep 04
Emerging Markets Do Not Need More Local Stablecoins
Sep 02
The GENIUS Act Did Not Regulate Stablecoins It Broke Their Business Model
Sep 01
The Two Trillion Dollar Remittance Market Runs on WhatsApp Not Web3
August
Aug 27
The Stablecoin L1 Trap and What Fantom Collapse Teaches Us
Aug 26
Banks Will Not Issue Stablecoins They Will Control the Rails Instead
Aug 25
Why 90 Percent of Stablecoin L1s Will Fail in 18 Months
Aug 20
State of Stablecoin and the New Frontier
Aug 14
Rethinking V2 and Avoiding the Rewrite Trap in the Age of AI
Aug 08
Phalanx Engineering: Lessons in Building Teams That Hold the Line
2016
April
Apr 23
Scorpion Sting and the Chicken Story
Apr 22
The Frogs and the Drum Story
Apr 21
Cricket Head on a Stick Story
Apr 20
Cruel Kids, The Animals I Know and How to Neuter a Cow
2014
April
Apr 24
Thirty & Ba Mươi
2013
March
Mar 26
Personal and Business Cloud Security
January
Jan 28
My List of Commonly-Used Git Commands
Jan 06
Inline Read More Link in Python Using lxml
2012
September
Sep 30
Creating Mid-Autumn Festival Lantern for Mây Sơn
June
Jun 08
Eating Striped Bass Organs and Innards
Jun 01
Rice Paddy and Crabs in Viet Nam
May
May 28
Hello (Learning) World
