Now
A now page, in the Derek Sivers sense: what has my attention right now, not a highlight reel. Last reviewed August 2026.
I rejoined in May 2026. Two years away from the inside of AI infrastructure turned out to be the best possible preparation for coming back to it — I have now been a customer, a competitor, and a builder of the layer on top.
Real-time video agents that hold a conversation as you. I am not running it day to day any more, but the thesis has not changed: the hard part was never the model — it is trust, latency, and knowing when the agent should shut up and hand back to the human.
Sixteen seats, October 1–5, 2026, forty acres of California desert. Four days built to reset people who cannot sit still.
San Francisco and Los Angeles. Dinners, introductions, and a membership bar that stays high.
New Delamax material. Slower than I would like.
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