I learn from history and borrow the best ideas. I find problems and build what fixes them.
Five things I’ve built. Pick one up.
What I’ve built
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Compounding over decades fascinates me. The people who did it best wrote down how; I follow them, with tools they never had.
Elie-lee
A research system that looks for companies worth owning for decades.
685
companies researched in depth so far.
A person approves the memo
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At work, writing the rules for one app took a skilled engineer three to five hours by hand.
Kavikah-vee
Writes the rules that decide which software may run on a Windows device.
Minutes
per app, with Kavi.
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At work, people held back from artificial intelligence over privacy. Yet without it, it’s hard to compete.
Sayasah-yah
Lets artificial intelligence work on a confidential file without seeing the names and numbers in it.
87%
of sensitive values caught in an outside set of 300 records.
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On an old file server, one stolen password often opens every project folder.
Kelikeh-lee
Sets who can open each folder on a shared drive. It changes nothing until a person types how many folders will change.
3 of 40
folders open to one account after Keli, in one example.
A person types the count
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Hundreds of founder stories, and nowhere to search them. So I built my own almanac, inspired by David Senra’s Founders podcast.
Yadiyah-dee
My notes on how founders and investors thought. Everything I build can ask them.
13,649
passages, each traced to its source.
You have to keep learning because the world keeps changing and your competitors keep learning. You have to go to bed wiser than when you got up.