I write when something in the work takes a shape worth keeping. The recent posts cover the AI-native operating practice. The 2007 to 2009 posts are field reports from building rVibe, kept for the record.
2026
- Using AI to Predict Clinical Trial Patient Populations in the Future September 10, 2026
The field's tools forecast whether a trial will enroll. Almost nobody asks whether the population is real. A multi-panel adversarial run killed our lead population assumption in a day.
- Herding Kittens with Jet Packs July 16, 2026
Everyone's got a jet pack now and productivity still hasn't moved. This is about the fast, fragile little machines people are building with them, none of it composed, nobody steering, and what to do next.
- The new constraint June 1, 2026
I thought the constraint had flipped — from internal bandwidth to external pace. It's more complicated than that.
- Smart Models, Dumb Pipes March 24, 2026
Most people are using LLMs as question-answering machines. That's not wrong, it's just not the interesting part.
- You don't want another chatbot March 9, 2026
What most people call AI is often just a chat interface sitting on top of a much bigger capability problem.
- From AI Studio to AI Forge March 6, 2026
Why the AI studio metaphor stopped being enough for me, and how I'm starting to think in terms of AI Forge, Speedrift, and a bounded dark factory.
2025
- Developing intuition for CLI-based AI coding December 22, 2025
What I've learned about working with LLMs in CLI contexts—the patterns, the pitfalls, and why understanding matters more than tooling.
- CLI AI Coding: A Vault of Valuable Things December 7, 2025
A curated list of repos, configs, and practices for CLI-based AI coding—road-tested by people doing real work.
- The Mindset Gap: How an AI Studio Changed My Workflow November 5, 2025
Why my LLM work feels like running an AI studio, and how the environment, connectors, and mindset fit together.
- How I'm integrating AI into my workflow for business acceleration September 3, 2025
The playbook I'm using to embed AI agents across meetings, CRM, messaging, and build workflows for business acceleration.
- I think I am AI-engineering September 3, 2025
- How I'm integrating AI into my workflow for business acceleration September 3, 2025
- My Development Setup: tmux, Tailscale, and Claude Agents September 3, 2025
A tour of the tmux, Tailscale, and Claude agent setup that keeps my remote development environment humming.
- My agentic model at the end of June 2025 June 30, 2025
- The CLI LLM Agent Journey So Far May 30, 2025
- My 'Vibe Coding' Process ATM May 28, 2025
- Building an Obsidian to Jekyll Workflow May 25, 2025
2024
2023
- Mixture of Experts models and why healthcare AI is about to get way more interesting July 18, 2023
- Building PrivateChatGPT June 16, 2023
- MedComm companies are about to get completely disrupted June 14, 2023
- Actually using ChatGPT in life science work (and the compliance headaches) June 12, 2023
2021
2020
- Virtual Meetings: Rapid Response Needs During COVID-19 March 5, 2020
Archive (2007-2009)
- Running a startup feels a little like hang-gliding...
- Social Networking Marketing is not free or easy...
- I was wondering when Grooveshark would get sued....
- On a new tag line for our company
- Songkick - just another UGC site, but for music
- Getting back to blogging....
- Sonific goes under - more on the way I am sure
- The missing link in internet pure plays - customer intimacy
- MySpace mobile - competition
- Process: "Fundraising is wretched"
- There's "free music" and then there's what people want
- Accepted into the AVF
- How to change strategic direction
- On the funding trail
- Refocus and re-energize our message
- NY Angels - passed
- Just pitched to the NY Angel Group
- Potential versus performance, hiring, investing and outlook on life
- Music Offerings
- Moving in new directions is great and challenging
- an interesting possible partnership
- EMI strategy
- Seed versus early stage
- Steve Jobs comments - the goods for a music service
- Back from NYC
- Back to blogging here at wordpress
- Prepping for VC due diligence
- Watermarking revisited
- Migrating to new blog - info.rvibe.com/blog
- iTunes backlash - but wait, is it more?
- MusicIP - new cool stuff
- New server is in! Now can we add more cool stuff please?
- Talking to VC's
- CFO review
- CFO review
- Book review: Cicero: Life and times of Rome's greatest Politician
- Letting users in - leading to server upgrade
- Sherridan Square licensing deal - done!
- In search of: Centralized ID management for Social Networks
- Out the door and on the way
- No rest for the weary
- rVibe key & active features for the beta
- rVibe launched today!
- The quality of digital audio
- Sheridan square update
- Speaking at the Lehigh vSeries
- Trust and your partners
- Glad we waited to launch
- The pro forma quandry
- Amazon.com lauch - what does it mean for rVibe?
- Essentiality
- I think I'll blog about... starting a company.
- Virgin is out - why?
- 320kbps MP3
- Platforming - we're getting there
- Proliferation of services
- Platforming strategy
- Sheridan Square
- To launch or not to launch?
- Increase in users, decrease in sales = good for p2p and SN
- To platform or not to platform
- Digital watermarking - back again
- Paying for music via ISP
- Apple is a monoploy?
- Net neutrality considerations
- iTunes and the mobile strategy
- More thoughts on the Rick Rubin article
- Rick Rubin - future of music, well, Columbia anyway...
- Judging and juggling software vendors
- Wal-Mart goes DRM free - good for everyone except MTV
- Creativity and intellectual curiosity
- Blue note as a social network site
- Point Juncture, WA
- Beta requesters - hang in there please!
- I can't wait for the next two releases
- Universal to remove DRM - time to reach out again
- Taming out accounting structure
- release strategy?
- Technical/User Strategy
- Organizational design
- New Logo
- Organizing operations
- About to go fishing
- EMI and the buy-out - DRM
- Making money in online music
- Music apps for Facebook - revenue?
- Social Network + Online music = good business
- Beta 1 is finally here!
- Book - A history of knowledge
- Operations - $$$
- Importance of customer communication
- More data issues - performance related
- Overture to Candide
- Book - Mayflower
- Beta 1 - almost there....
- T shirt design
- We're going wiki
- Future of digital music delivery is....
- The Road
- Competition - it's a really good thing when seeking investment
- A little status
- Non-intrusive marketing
- The little details matter
- Vacation books....
- The Age Question here as well
- User driven marketing
- Professor and the madman
- Additional Funding - Ben Franklin
- An outage of sorts
- Getting people to pay for things
- Another 100,000 tracks on the way
- Fat/thin client and differentiation
- Identity formation and music preference online
- Irons in the fire
- Swedish Lullaby - Libana
- EMI, DRM and new licenses
- Vendors and Partners - making deals
- Major label's DRM-free music
- Red Herring - article
- To hype or not to hype?
- Guest Speaker
- Almost there - private beta 1
- Releasing software - issues and tricks
- XM Radio - quality issues and long term business
- Smart and Dumb Money
- Startup Squad
- Superdistribution - Answering Fred Wilson
- Warner - meeting with technology officer
- Wow there is a lot going on right now...
- Media distribution, lost sales, and what to do about it
- Warner music and licensing
- The difficulty with syncing social data (again)
- CDBaby content - round 1 received
- Stuff I find - web 2.0 - silly name
- The art and law of webcasts
- Microsoft can't beat Apple (it's not because they can't)
- No-DRM Yahoo MP3 'Experiment' doesn't mean anything
- Microsoft as Innovator? Not first anyway...
- No DRM for Majors? Not yet...
- Avoiding busy user interface design
- Barrier to entry - differentiation & quality
- What's up Steve Jobs' sleeve?
- Brahms Voilin Concerto in D
- Piracy as a market measure
- A very positive VC encounter
- MusicNet - what's to become of DRM?
- Engaging EMI
- "me too" - differentiation - branding?
- DRM-free Major Label Music?
- Originate Ventures - not a match
- Originate Ventures - presentation on deck
- Ruckus as a viable service?
- XM Radio vs download services - implications
- Looking back - engaging the major labels
- Digital music sales double - could it have been more?
- AOL Music is Napster = acquisition?
- Future of digital music - is more than one solution?
- Technology Business Decision - C++ or Java
- EMI and (potential) changes
- Appalachian Spring - for 13 (or so) instruments
- The trouble with music data and social networks
- CDBaby - Oh Baby!
- Favorite investor question
- The "majors" (record labels)
- Totus Tuus
- Social Networks/ing & Music Sites
- Zune + (lack of) social networks
- Funding - Reaching BF Again
- Offshore vs. onshore
- Angel
- In search of: email tagging
- Looking back - potential merger
- Funding - another mile
- Bleecker Street
- Looking back - making sense of pro formas
- Who Wrote the New Testament?
- "You have to have a product people want"
- Starting a blog