August 4, 2024

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

I brainwashd myself for a year. It worked.

July 28, 2024

The Right Size Business

Some businesses only work if they are big. Some only if they are small.

July 21, 2024

Don't build a startup to solve your own problems

Solve a problem for people you like instead.

July 14, 2024

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

Your business and your understanding of what it does for its customerswill change alot overtime.

July 7, 2024

How to build AI Voice Apps in 2024

This will be outdated fast but for now I hope this helps.

June 30, 2024

Commodity Software

Software margins will be eroded by commodity software. AI accelerates this.

June 23, 2024

Permission is Forever

Authentication systems and data owners will have a big say on the shape of future AI.

June 16, 2024

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

Great entrepreneurs find great problems to solve.

June 9, 2024

Back To Atoms

Software is now a solved problem. We should go back to working on hardware.

August 7, 2021

Commodity Culture

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

July 10, 2021

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.

June 27, 2021

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.

June 6, 2021

Farm Inputs Index Fund

Farmers just want to manage risk and gurantee a return.

May 23, 2021

Coal Steaks and Nuclear Nuggets

Cattle farmers should take the threat of alternative proteins seriously.

April 25, 2021

Biological Scarcity

In the USA crops are one of the only things we might be better at printing than dollars. Tree's provide scarcity like bitcoin.

April 18, 2021

The Story You Tell is the Margin You Keep

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

April 12, 2021

Hub and Spoke Transparency

How farmers experience purchasing inputs.

April 12, 2021

The Ag Inputs Love Triangle

How farmers buy inputs bundled with services.

August 16, 2020

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.

October 14, 2018

The Future of Self-driving Cows

Cows could save the planet. Virtual fencing could help.

August 11, 2018

We Can't Just Blame Trade and Trump

Farms don't actually sell anything anymore. They hire other people to do that and it shows.

January 23, 2017

How we might use Virtual Reality in Agriculture

VR can be used in all domains. Including agriculture.