AI is putting intelligence in everyone's hands — and that, more than any program or policy, is how we flourish.
An optimism grounded in human agency rather than government. The problem is solvable — and we solve it together, close to the source.
The idea
Cronyism, corporatism, regulation, and bureaucracy are one problem wearing different clothes — they are all complexity, and complexity is a regressive tax that rewards the large and connected while it punishes the individual and the small operator. Simpler systems are the reform. And broadly adopted intelligence — the printing press and the internet did it for information; AI does it for intelligence itself — is the lever that finally makes simplification and self-reliance achievable for ordinary people.
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Founding piece
The case for the complexity tax, the democratization of intelligence, and an optimism built on agency rather than government.
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I shipped a website and an AI agent without writing the code. The democratization of intelligence isn't a forecast — it's something an ordinary person can already do.
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The fear that AI takes the jobs gets the dynamic backwards. The early evidence points the other way — and much of what AI absorbs is work no one wanted at its core.
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