Ai Micro Agents

The iMessage/Whatsapp based assistants that almost like a chief of staff.

No need to spend on an interface

Apollo Proves the Thesis: 5​.5M Enrichments/Month from a Chat WindowApollo shipped an MCP connector and now runs from inside Perplexity, Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor​. They logged 5​.5 million data enrichments per month via chat windows — not their own polished UI​. The lesson: "Expose your capability through a protocol, not a screen​." People didn't choose chat because it was novel​. They chose it because chat was faster than the interface Apollo spent years polishing​.

Phone calls for Agents! (you get a phone! you get a phone!...)

Finally an API from an organization that's been in the game for awhile.

Failures of a voice agent, and how to tackle them.

Predictions for Conversation Design: 2026 and Beyond

A16 Thesis on Voice.

An iMessage-based Social Network

Two Yale students raise millions in two weeks.

The God API (or, finding out which model is the funniest)

I've always thought comedy requires not just intelligence, but somehow the ability to read the room, have good timing, add twists and surprises.

Dark Patterns: Sales going off the rails

Twilio moves into iMessage

Infrastructure for the agentic era: A new conversation layer for the Twilio Platform

Value is ( ). The end.

Well, Manus solved it.

The iMessage Interface

You get download an app, never use it.

Ai = Fake Flow State (and it kills your memory)

Do you notice you're getting tired? A different kind of tired?

The Value of State in the Age of Ai

Your nervous system drives the type and quality of response.

The Value of Less

And how to get more of it.

Usable Output

When production is democratized, the deliverables become generic commodities. We need new standards of value and quality.

Future Vectors and Value Propositions

Everyone is getting sick of everything. You have to really cut through the noise.

Elegant > Optimized

The race to automate everything feels soulless. This is the return of "Look and Feel."

The Healthiest Relationship to Social Media

Use the timing for encoding memories to balance it out.

Idea to App: Choose your output layer

Rather than going straight to vibe coding, think about your highest leverage outcome and then choose the output layer.

The Chaos Game

As chaos increases, there are several ways to play the game.