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The ingredients are the same, but the recipe is different.

Kicking off the conversation A friend of mine read my recent post on Why You Shouldn’t Build a Blockchain and reached out with some thoughts that I’d summarize as: “I still don’t get it…” We’ve had countless conversations about whether digital payments ne…

What I learned after spending four years building one

Olshansky's review of People We Meet on Vacation

Olshansky's review of The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous by Joseph Henrich

I recently spent quite a bit of time with people outside the “tech bubble”.

A running log of ideas, observations, and questions.

A short miniseries capturing the story of a short presidency.

A reflection on humility, support systems, luck, and learning not to take difficult seasons so hard.

“Star City” is a direct response to fans of “For All Mankind” who wanted more.

The path to Safe AI may involve just as much focus on saving human intelligence as it does on building safe superintelligence.

Introduction - Why talk about RAG in 2026?

Thoughts and ideas while reading OpenAI's 'Building self-improving tax agents with Codex'.

4.5/5 stars I was visiting my parents and started watching this movie in the background with my mom while on my computer.

Rohan is the author of one of my favorite blogs from the past year - a learning a day.

Why I invest even though I know I can't beat the market.

DevEx === AgentEx If your system is well designed for developers, it works for agents.

Three things you underappreciate when joining a project that has passed the zero-to-one stage.

x402 is the right base layer.

And how I code in April of 2026.

We partnered with Coinbase Developer Platform to bring Apple Pay to Grove so fans can tip creators in seconds.

Reflections from an AI agents summit - business fundamentals, what drives people, and a personal mission.

Four modes of growth: reading, writing, listening, and speaking.

Making useful and safe AI - from cryptoeconomic incentives to raw sensor data in construction.

This is the single best perspective on the shift and risk in quantum computing.

Intelligence is often conflated with “cached knowledge.”

Games like Overwatch use Matchmaking Rating (MMR) algorithms to ensure players are matched against each other as close to the same skill level as possible: In an ideal situation, both teams would have 50% win probability, causing the result to entirely de…

Unexpectedly Intriguing I opened up Netflix on a Friday evening not knowing what I wanted to watch.

This really made me feel old and out of touch.

On a semi-frequent basis, I ask myself: What important truth do very few people agree with you on?

Burnout is a term that’s overused but underdefined.

Olshansky's review of Billionaire's Bunker

A wallet-first personal homepage for your content, your audience, and your money.

Tip to Talk: a new way for creators to earn by requiring a tip to receive a message.

Some people talk to think.

Writing code has gone away, but sculpting code is here to stay.

A heart warming RomCom with an original angle, a great director, and a good looking cast.

When it comes to digital content, reach used to be king.

The difference between discovery and invention is adoption.

A 53-second demo of round-tripping between traditional banking and onchain, and why building it was way harder than it looks.

The world’s greatest set of AI researchers published a paper on 01/01/2026, and no one noticed.

Streamlining code reviews for a content earnings platform with agents.

A few years ago someone told me I’m good at documenting my workflows.

If you’re in the mood for a short, fun, “the hangover” style movie, you can stop here.

One of my alltime favourite jokes in the context of software engineering is: “There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors.”

Do you ever feel like you can hold two contradicting thoughts at the same time?

I keep seeing a huge red flag when speaking to my network and friends at big tech companies.

TL;DR: Everything I’ve worked on in the last decade comes back to one thing: incentives.

tl;dr There are 78K+ agent skills across 8K publishers.

The $5M pitch Command Code AI announced that they recently raised $5M to build a proprietary AI agent that learns your coding style; taste.