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03 / CONNECTING THE DOTS

Connecting
the dots.

Looking back at what work, travel, athletics, and everyday life have taught me. Making sense of the path so far, while figuring out what comes next.

Connected milestones trace a journey to the present; dotted routes branch toward possible destinations ahead.

WRITING · AUG 25, 2026 · 1 MIN

Are micro builders coming next?

AI made building cheap. It didn’t make maintaining cheap—which is why the apps you build for your friends quietly die.

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RANDOM THOUGHTS / AUGUST 25, 2026

Are micro builders coming next?

Random thought.

Social media commoditized attention. Everybody became a creator and we got micro influencers.

I think AI is doing the same thing to building. Everybody can be a builder now. You’ll have your own apps, your friends will use them, and they’ll be built for exactly what you guys need.

I’ve been trying this on weekends. What I found: building is the easy part. Keeping the thing alive is the problem. Something breaks, a friend wants one change, you’re busy. It dies.

So the real unlock isn’t that building got cheap. It’s when everyone in the group can build, not just one person. Then nobody is the maintainer. It’s just a small thing you guys own together.

We’re not there yet. But that’s the shift I’m watching.

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