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Tractor and Silo
2026
I've Been Building the Same App for 14 Years
There's a lot of noise about how fast you can build software now. I've been building the same one since 2012 and using it every day since 2016. Here's what the long version teaches that fourteen days can't.
The future of healthcare is prevention
At a work offsite on May 6, 2015, I said the future of healthcare is prevention. Four years later I wrote that down on the record of the day. The prevention companies exist now. I built the record.
Be Your Own Historian
One conviction, held since 2012, and what it predicts. In a world where intelligence is cheap and getting cheaper, the only thing that stays scarce is the record of a particular life.
The Memex Has Been Waiting 80 Years for This Moment
Vannevar Bush described the memex in July 1945. It took 80 years to become buildable, because it required two things that didn't coexist until now: cheap private AI, and the conviction that data ownership is the last real moat.