Your Company Already Has a Brain. It Just Keeps Forgetting.
Week in Tech #8 — Walmart, Google I/O, Meta, and a Y Combinator talk all pointed at the same thing last week. None of it is about how much AI you can afford. A lot of retailers reported earnings last week, and the headlines mostly led with sales. I want to point at a different part of the same reports, because it changes what a small business probably ought to be doing on Monday morning. I sell rugs through some of…
Keep readingWeek in Tech #7: The Week the Economy Started Indexing Itself
May 3, 2026. Every Sunday, I make sense of what happened in tech for the people running real businesses through the biggest platform shift in a generation. A thing I keep coming back to. The technology we are talking about is already ahead of where most businesses are at adopting it. The capabilities ship faster than the human institutions ship the changes to use them. That gap is uncomfortable. It is also where every opportunity lives. The internet was here for…
Keep readingWeek in Tech #6: Sixty Billion Dollars for a Code Editor
Wednesday, April 29, 2026. I run a rug company. I am not a tech reporter. I just read a lot. A note on the timing of this one. I usually publish on Sunday or Monday. This is going up on a Wednesday because I spent the past five days at High Point Market, the largest furniture trade show in North America and my actual day job. Rugs come first. Newsletter is something I write on flights and weekends. The trade show…
Keep readingWeekly #5: The Week the Interface Started to Disappear
April 19, 2026. A weekly technology roundup written by a founder who builds with these tools, not just reads about them. This is my fifth Sunday writing one of these. Every week I sit down with a coffee, go through what I read, built, and played with over the past seven days, and try to make sense of it for anyone who wants to follow along. You dont need to be technical. You dont need to be in the industry. You…
Keep readingThe Week in Technology #4: April 12, 2026
This week the Artemis II crew spoke publicly for the first time since coming home from the Moon. If you havent watched it yet, I’d really encourage you to. Four people who just traveled 695,000 miles, farther from Earth than any human has ever been, standing together, hugging each other, high-fiving through the entire debrief. You could feel it. These people were changed. What struck me most was this: they were inspired going up. But they were more inspired coming back…
Keep readingWeek in Tech #3: From the Moon to Your Shopping Cart, What Actually Happened This Week
April 5, 2026 One of my favorite things to do on Sundays is go through everything I read, researched, and worked on during the week and try to make sense of it. I started doing this publicly a few weeks ago. You don’t need to be technical to follow along. You don’t need to be in the industry. You just need to be curious about where things are heading. This was one of those weeks where the headlines feel like they’re…
Keep readingThe Week in Technology — March 23–30, 2026
NASA Is Going Back to the Moon — For Real This Time This was a massive week for space. Three announcements landed within days of each other, and together they represent the most significant shift in American space strategy since the Space Shuttle program ended in 2011. First, Artemis 2 is preparing for an April 1 launch. Artemis is NASA’s program to return humans to the Moon — the successor to the Apollo missions that landed the first astronauts on the lunar surface…
Keep readingThe Week It All Clicked: AI & Robotics, March 15–21, 2026
Issue #1 — Week of March 15–21, 2026 This might have been the densest week in AI and robotics I can remember. NVIDIA’s GTC conference dropped a two-hour keynote that rewrote the hardware roadmap. The All-In podcast went live from Austin with Jensen Huang and Michael Dell back to back. Andrej Karpathy sat down with Sarah Guo on No Priors and basically said he hasn’t written a line of code since December. Brett Adcock gave a full Figure AI headquarters tour…
Keep readingI Run a Rug Company. Here’s Why I Can’t Stop Thinking About Robots.
The state of robotics in 2026, through the eyes of someone who moves physical goods for a living I’ve spent the last decade importing, warehousing, and shipping rugs. Turkish supply chains. A warehouse in Easton, PA. Pallets moving across Amazon, Wayfair, and our own DTC site. My world is physical — heavy, dusty, measured in square feet and container loads. So when Travis Kalanick dropped a 1,700-word manifesto on March 13 at atoms.co/vision announcing his robotics company Atoms — the culmination…
Keep readingHow Face-to-Face Wilton Weaving Works
If you’ve ever wondered what separates a quality machine-woven rug from a bargain-bin flatweave, the answer often comes down to three words: face-to-face Wilton. It’s one of the oldest and most ingenious weaving methods still in use today — and understanding it can completely change how you shop for rugs. A Little History: Where “Wilton” Comes From The Wilton loom traces its roots to the English town of Wilton in Wiltshire, where carpet production thrived as far back as the 1740s.…
Keep readingBeginner’s Guide to Working With Freight Brokers and Negotiating Lower Rates
If you’ve never worked with a freight broker before, the process can seem intimidating. But the truth is—it’s actually pretty straightforward. Freight brokers are simply the middle people who connect shippers (like us) with trucking companies. Their job is to find a carrier to move your freight, and your job is to make sure you’re getting a fair rate. Step 1: Understand the Broker’s Role Think of a broker as a matchmaker. You tell them what you need moved—how many pallets,…
Keep readingSunday Thoughts: We’re All Becoming Builders in the Decentralization Era
I’m not a developer. Let me just get that out there. I’m a commerce guy who gets excited about technology, and what I’m seeing right now is blowing my mind. Six months ago, I couldn’t have imagined writing a line of code. Today? I’m playing around with Cursor, experimenting with no-code tools, and I’ve actually got an IDE running on my Mac. Am I building the next Facebook? No. But I’m creating small, useful software for my specific needs. And that’s…
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