BookPressIn progress2026
Bare Metal Software
Software stacks grew taller because human developers needed abstractions, frameworks, libraries, SDKs, and managed services to make difficult work practical. Native AI changes that tradeoff.
Intellectual Frontiers Portfolio
4 of 113 works · Book.
BookPressIn progress2026
Chasing Native Alpha
When every competitor can reach for capable models, coding agents, cloud infrastructure, and increasingly similar technology, producing more software is no longer a sufficient strategy.
BookPressIn progress2026
The Code Takes Care of Itself
A contrarian, practical leadership book for the technologist who was promoted because they were the best engineer in the room, and is now discovering that the same instinct can make them the organization's most expensive bottleneck.
BookPressIn progress2026
The CTO You Actually Need
The CTO title hides radically different jobs. A startup builder, SME technology leader, business-unit CTO, enterprise strategist, and fractional adviser can all be excellent, but not for the same company or moment.
What counts as a work
Patent family
A family of USPTO filings around one invention, granted or pending, with its real status.
Venture
An operating company chartered by Studios, with an entity, an operator, and a closure path.
Shared service
A capability built for the whole portfolio and designed to be spun out on its own.
Company
A company funded, built, or spun out. (Lapsed filings remain in the patent register.)
Fund
A pool of capital with a written thesis and a stated deployment model.
Book
Long-form publishing that makes the case for an invention or an operating model.
Research
Standing research programs and publication series, including peer-reviewed work.
Research paper
Trademark
Landscape study
A landscape read that changed a filing or funding decision.
Defensive disclosure
A defensive publication that puts prior art in the open so a bad patent cannot be filed later.
Dataset
A structured intelligence asset that decides where capital, filings, or ventures go next.
Method
A reusable operating method that the rest of the portfolio is built on.
Founder writing
A piece the founder published on his own site, tagged by type, that argues a finding in the open before it becomes a filing or a fund.
Online publication
An owned online publication that makes the case for our work to a standing audience.