Essays
Notes on the quiet shift.
Dispatches on AI, work, and the parts of professional life that are being rewritten without anyone announcing it.
May 2026
The Solo Founder Stack 2026: How One Person Ships 14 Live Products Without a Team
After 18 months running 14 live products as one person and an AI stack, here is what actually fits in your day, what does not, and the architecture that keeps it from collapsing.
May 2026
Agent vs Employee: 12 Real Startups That Replaced Roles With AI in 2026
We tracked 12 companies that swapped human roles for AI agents. Some saved millions. Others quietly rehired the people they fired. Here is every case, documented.
May 2026
Can An AI Agent Run a Business Solo? We Tracked 5 That Tried
Five real experiments where AI agents attempted to run businesses autonomously. What worked, what broke, and what it actually cost.
May 2026
The 2030 Workforce: Which Jobs AI Will Replace (And Which It Will Create)
The WEF projects 170 million new jobs and 92 million displaced by 2030. Behind that headline: entire professions vanish, new roles emerge, and millions face partial automation.
May 2026
The Fully Automated Company: 7 Real Case Studies From 2026
Everyone talks about the fully automated company. Almost nobody can point to one. We found seven.
May 2026
How a Solo Founder Runs a Seven-Figure Company With AI Agents
Five patterns from 2026 show how solo founders use AI agents to replace entire teams and scale past seven figures without hiring.
April 2026
The Layoffs That Don't Make Headlines
The headline layoffs are engineers. The real ones are the people nobody writes about.
April 2026
Taste Is the Last Moat
When everyone can generate a draft, the thing that still costs money is knowing which draft is good.
April 2026
The Boardroom Edit
Attrition is moving up the org chart. The next wave is taking middle managers.
April 2026
Why Junior Roles Vanish First
Entry-level jobs existed because firms paid for the training of future seniors. That deal is breaking.
April 2026
The Human Premium
Clients still pay more for human work - but no longer for the same output.
April 2026
Second-Order Jobs
When white-collar jobs disappear, the second wave is everyone who depended on them spending money.