The open web is splitting into gated pockets: robots.txt walls, login walls, paid APIs and private licensing deals. What the data shows, where it complicates the story, and what builders and readers should do about it.
Open web · AI · Data · Business8 min read
When growth becomes the goal rather than the result, companies start consuming the things that made them worth growing: their products, their customers' trust, and their people. How that shows up inside product and engineering orgs, and the small, practical ways builders can push back.
Leadership · Product · Business7 min read
Building software keeps getting cheaper. What stays scarce is a clean, modular data model and an existing web of customers, partners and channels that will carry the product. Why I think that pairing is the nucleus of most winning formulas, and what the research says.
Architecture · Data · Business · Product9 min read