Writing
Things I write about.
AI, aviation, mobility, and the occasional lesson from running a company. Mostly me working through things I'm not yet sure about.
RSS feed2026-08-04
The Only Real Threat to Starlink Is 20 km Up
Everyone watching the connectivity race is looking at orbit. The layer that will actually undercut satellite economics sits at 20 kilometres, in the lower stratosphere, and in 2026 it stopped being a research project. This is the physics, the aircraft I sized to test it, and the money now backing the category.
2026-07-09
When the Chip Becomes the Model
Taalas is etching entire LLMs into silicon like a game cartridge. Etched just came out of stealth with working transformer ASICs and a billion dollars in contracts. The hardware side of inference is finally getting interesting and the endgame might be a frontier model humming quietly on your home server.
2026-06-08
The New Language Barrier
Writing code with AI agents can often feel like you are lost in translation. Why is that, and what can we do about it?
2026-06-03
How LLMs Got Faster Without New Hardware
The training side of AI gets all the headlines. But in the last year the inference side has been quietly transformed. KV cache compression, rotation-based quantization, and multi-token prediction are why your local model runs twice as fast today as it did twelve months ago.
2026-06-01
The NanoGPT Speedrun: From 45 Minutes to 81 Seconds
A GitHub repo nobody talks about might be the clearest window into how AI training actually got so much faster. Here is the story of modded-nanogpt and the people racing to train a language model as fast as physically possible.
2025-08-21
The Sky Is Patient
I once bet we'd hail an air taxi by 2027. Today, I'm less confident and here's why.
2024-06-09
How a youtube video let me rethink my beliefs
It's 2019, past midnight, and a TEDx talk about nuclear power is keeping me awake. Not because it convinced me, but because it exposed a belief I had never questioned.
2024-06-09
The Self-Driving Revolution: The Journey to V12 and Beyond
Tesla's V12 replaced hand-coded driving rules with a neural network trained on human drives. How the end-to-end shift happened, and why the next step is a car that drives like you.
2024-06-05
Lights, Camera, Action! The Future of Entertainment: When Movies and Games Collide
Movies and games are converging. Film assets now drop straight into game engines, NPCs are starting to feel like people, and the line between watching a story and playing it is about to get thin.
2023-04-25
The Dawn of Artificial General Intelligence - How Language Models evolved into Intelligent Beings
A Microsoft research team tested GPT-4 against a 1994 definition of intelligence and concluded it might be the first AGI. The unicorn drawings are the least scary part.
2021-10-14
Are electric cars better than traditional cars? Not yet, but history proves they will be
Written in 2018, published in 2021. Innovation S-curves explain why comparing electric cars to gasoline cars as they stand today is the wrong question.
