Essays & notes

Writing

The thesis, and how the rest of it follows: architecture notes, post-mortems, and the research behind what I build.

AI Investments and Ideas

A personal thesis on where AI, automation, and the future of global supply chains are headed, and why investing conviction matters more than ideas.

Fri Apr 25 2025

POLIS: A Love Letter to the 2D City Builder

Nobody makes games like Transport Tycoon or Age of Empires anymore, so I made one. Six lands, five eras, 41 research projects, built with an AI agent in one long session. Free to play in your browser.

Fri Oct 16 2026

Self-Hosting Kimi K3: The Math

Moonshot's K3 weights land July 27. The buy vs rent vs API math for running an Opus 4.8-class model yourself: $400K to first token, and where it breaks even.

Wed Jul 22 2026

Document Intelligence: Architecture Options Compared for PDF Financial Data Extraction

I tested 14 different approaches to extract structured financial data from PDFs. Most of them were bad. Here's what actually works, and what absolutely doesn't.

Mon Dec 22 2025

Production-ready Google Drive + OneDrive/SharePoint Sync and Write-back

I evaluated 17 vendors, survived the CASA gauntlet, and mapped every constraint so you don't have to. Here's what actually works.

Sat Dec 20 2025

Virtual Data Room (VDR) Infrastructure

How I got a $50k/year enterprise feature set for $900/year, and why building a VDR from scratch is a terrible idea.

Thu Dec 18 2025

Architectural Frameworks for Secure and Compliant Handling of Enterprise Data

A reference framework for building enterprise-grade AI platforms in regulated industries: 20 security controls across 8 domains, a compliance certification roadmap, and the architectural pattern that resolves the WORM-vs-GDPR contradiction.