Essays

The writing

One deep first-principles piece every two weeks, with the threads built around it.

  • Founding piece · Essay + podcast · Live

    Why WilliamFrank

    Complexity is the largest hidden tax on human flourishing; simpler systems are the reform; and broadly adopted intelligence is the lever. Watch or listen →

  • AI & democratization · Live

    AI lowers the barrier to build

    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. Read →

  • AI & work · Drafting

    Work worth wanting

    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.

  • Human agency · Drafting

    Putting agency back in the classroom

    An optimist's case for returning real authority to teachers and families — naming the fuller diagnosis (bureaucracy, liability law, and a culture of blame that erodes self-agency) and the path back, with AI as a lever.

  • Markets & enterprise · Drafting

    The conflicted intermediary

    The case for maximum small free enterprise — exchange as close to the source as possible, and fewer middle layers carrying conflicts of interest.

  • Wealth education · Planned

    Investing on evidence, not on noise

    Plain-spoken wealth education — aligning risk, return, and incentive — with the deeper tools and planning at WealthFactor.

  • Political economy · Drafting

    How cronyism and corporatism grow collectivism

    A system that calls itself capitalist, but runs on complexity and capture, drifts toward collectivist outcomes anyway.

  • Simpler systems · Planned

    Simple rules for a complex world

    The affirmative case for simplification — and the honest limits, where complexity earns its keep.