The AI Business Through a Crypto Miner's Eyes

June 25, 2026

From chips to infrastructure to models to apps, tracing where the money flows in the AI industry pyramid — and asking when this business can sustain itself instead of surviving on round after round of investment.

June 21, 2026

From the 2017 ETH mining boom to today's AI compute frenzy, a former crypto miner examines NVIDIA through hard-won experience — real vs. phantom demand, the general-purpose trap, circular investment, old players at a new table, and Cisco's 25-year mirror. read more →

June 19, 2026

"Naval Ravikant calls code and media the two forms of permissionless leverage. But writing and code differ fundamentally — writing changes minds, travels independently, never breaks, and ships once. Code depends on environments, rots over time, and demands ongoing maintenance. In the AI era, authentic writing is becoming scarcer and more valuable." read more →

June 16, 2026

AI is eliminating information-processing roles while creating massive demand for people who can actually use it. Claude Corps — a $150M fellowship by Anthropic — is a case in point. read more →

June 7, 2026

The origin story of ASys: from ISO 7816 smart card protocols to a binary system interface for AI Agents, and why AI ops needs a new communication standard. read more →

June 5, 2026

Lincoln Park was once Chicago's municipal cemetery. The Grant statue has stood there for over a century — surviving a lightning strike in 1892 and a monuments review committee in 2020. Removing a bronze doesn't remove history; sometimes it only moves the problem out of sight. One person can be both an instrument of justice and an agent of injustice. The complexity doesn't resolve. read more →

June 1, 2026

Bed frame slats spaced 3.5 inches apart — exceeding Simmons warranty requirements. After ruling out a Box Spring, Bunkie Board, and Foundation one by one, I solved the problem with two sheets of plywood from Home Depot for $108. Includes cut dimensions, kerf details, and exactly what to say at the cutting station. read more →

February 27, 2026

Once WSL2 is up and running, some strange things start to happen: you delete gigabytes of files in Linux and Windows disk usage doesn't budge; cross-system file access is painfully slow; a network script that worked fine yesterday suddenly breaks after a wsl --shutdown. None of this is a bug. It all traces back to three things at the core of WSL2's design — a special kind of VM, a single file that holds your entire Linux system, and an IP address that changes every time you restart. read more →

February 26, 2026

A practical guide to building a native Linux environment on Windows 11 using WSL2, bypassing the resource overhead of traditional virtual machines. Covers enabling BIOS virtualization, one-command deployment with `wsl --install`, file system mapping, and a warning about the irreversible data erasure caused by `--unregister`. read more →

February 22, 2026

I was studying for CompTIA A+ when I got frustrated with reviewing wrong answers in a plain document. So I built a tool — and now it's open source. read more →