entrepreneurship

Have you tried shutting it off and turning it back on?

How I took a year to censor my thoughts to free my mind

farming

The Right Size Business

Knowing what the right size of your business should be helps you plan how you go about your business.

Don't build a startup to solve your own problems

There's a reason Y Combinators slogan isn't "Build something you want."

entrepreneurship

You probably don't know what business you're in

The faster you truly know what business you're in the faster you can make it a truly great business.

AI

How to build AI Voice Apps in 2024

Intelligent human conversation should be considered free and easy going forward.

Commodity Software

The universe is coming for your software margins.

AI Featured

Permission is forever

OpenAI is building a local app to get around the permission system of the internet.

startups Featured

Stop trying to find ideas. Start trying to find problems.

Read this if you want to stop being a starving entrepreneur

AI Featured

Back To Atoms

Is AI the next big wave? Maybe. Maybe not. If we are lucky maybe we go back to atoms.

farming

Commodity Culture

Commodity culture is broken. Coops, Checkoffs, and Subsidies have detached the farmer from reality through weak incentive structures.

foodtech Featured

The AWS of Food

Infrastructure as a Service, with low barriers to entry, and a focus on food and agriculture, creates the bright future for farms and food the world wants and needs.

AgTech Featured

The Farm Barbell

The future of agriculture is large farms producing commodities and small farms creating value added products. Startups should build penny shaving machines for scaled farms and margin capture machines for small farms.

AgTech Featured

Farm Inputs Index Fund

So what is the goal of the farmer when purchasing inputs? In a very specific sense it's usually something like, "I want 250 tons of soybean meal at a better price." But this is really just a reflection of one specific point in time of a

AgTech

Coal Steaks and Nuclear Nuggets

How do you feel about coal power? I expect it doesn't make you feel warm and fuzzy inside. It's basically boring dirty tech that society has decided it wants to be done with. Surely some people don't give two fucks but thats just how

agroforestry

Biological Scarcity

In the USA crops are one of the only things we might be better at printing than dollars. 💸

AgTech Featured

The Margin You Keep

There are many ways to get margin. Some work better than others.

AgTech Featured

Hub & Spoke Transparency

How farmers experience purchasing inputs.

AgTech Featured

The Ag Inputs Love Triangle

The Ag Inputs Love Triangle Every company on the planet is working towards getting someone else’s dollars. Some provide products, some provide services. Some are value added. Some are wholesale. There’s an unlimited set of ways that this can be done but some are more popular than others.

startups

Don't build v2 when v3 will do.

Version 2 of anything is probably an “intermediate state”. Don’t build it. Build whats next instead. Let’s start out with what I am defining as an intermediate state. An intermediate state is the point between a current state and a future state. More robustly, it’s an infinite

The Future of Self-driving Cows

You may be thinking that is one hell of a typo. But it isn’t. So let’s talk cows. Cows are kind of like dogs. Domesticated. Different personalities. Fat cows. Skinny cows. You get the drift. The main point is that we took these animals and we have integrated

We can't just blame Trade and Trump.

If you’re a farmer in 2018 its totally on point to be freaking out about trade wars and Trump tweets wether it be in person or on #agtwitter [https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=%23agtwitter%20trade&src=typd] . It’s palpable how bad

VR

How we might use Virtual Reality in Agriculture

Virtual Reality (VR) is just for gamers right? These crazy nerdy looking headsets you see on people’s faces have no practical value. Obviously. Well…. Thats probably not the case. The truth is VR might provide great new innovations for agriculture. Think of VR like the internet. It’s just