AP's Blog

A collection of my writing, shared with friends, family, and colleagues.

Technology and Ideas

AI Agents, Ontologies, and Personal Context
AI Agents, Ontologies, and Personal Context
How a small ontology can connect years of emails, messages, and documents through stable identities, relationships, and source links.
 Write-Ahead Logs on S3
Write-Ahead Logs on S3
How large working copies and small changes can support independently scaling read replicas, with S3 as the durable authority.
 Some Simple Economics of AGI: Structured Notes
Some Simple Economics of AGI: Structured Notes
Catalini, Hui, and Wu ask what happens when producing work becomes much cheaper than checking whether it is good.
 Nobody Has It Figured Out: Notes from Martin Fowler's Fragments
Nobody Has It Figured Out: Notes from Martin Fowler's Fragments
What the Thoughtworks retreat suggests about testing, review, risk, and the engineering work that code generation does not remove.
 The AI Wave: Notes & Observations
The AI Wave: Notes & Observations
Recurring ideas from investor conversations about adoption, model economics, vertical products, and the pace of business change.
 The Vertical Software Reckoning
The Vertical Software Reckoning
Which familiar software advantages become easier to reproduce, and which ones remain rooted in scarce assets and relationships.
 Michael Levin on Lex Fridman: Distilled
Michael Levin on Lex Fridman: Distilled
Notes on bioelectricity, collective goals, persuadability, and forms of intelligence that do not begin with brains.
 Software in the Era of AI
Software in the Era of AI
Karpathy on prompts as programs, partial autonomy, the autonomy slider, and software designed for agents.

Personal Interests

Texas-Style Brisket: When You Only Have an Electric Smoker
Texas-Style Brisket: When You Only Have an Electric Smoker
A practical guide to trimming, bark, the stall, wrapping, an oven finish, and a safe hot hold.
 Emotional Intelligence & Self-Mastery
Emotional Intelligence & Self-Mastery
A small framework for noticing what you feel, making room before responding, and choosing what to do next.
 Epic Tennis Matches
Epic Tennis Matches
One rivalry at its most balanced, one test of endurance, and one final that made the next era feel real.