i’ve been reverse-engineering the world since i was eight - melting pencil lead into makeshift lightbulbs using drill batteries I pulled from the garage. my experiments got more technical (and often more problematic) with time: tearing apart school computers for parts, jailbreaking iphones in elementary school for cash, a soldering iron-induced fire that almost took out my parents’ house, and arduino-based automation system that turned my room into something between a rube goldberg machine and a surveillance state. i was the kid who only raised his hand to fix the teacher's projector, and who spent more time in the computer lab than i did in class. my entire life, I’ve been a tinkerer and technologist.

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the tools have changed - no more solder flux all over my bedroom carpet or recurring ebay deliveries of drone ESCs - but the obsession hasn’t. i still believe, maybe more than ever, that technology is humanity’s most powerful lever for a healthier, happier, and more productive world.

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software is eating the world, but AI ate software

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i’ve always been drawn to things you can touch and take apart. hardware forces you to understand how the world actually works. the longer i’m in tech, the more i believe that great software only exists because great hardware allows it. every leap in ai, sensing, mobility, or interfaces sits on top of someone building a better physical layer.

 

AI and LLMs just make this more obvious. as models improve, software moats collapse. UIs get cloned instantly, entire apps can be rebuilt with a few sentences, and the cost of software trends toward zero. when anyone can recreate a product in minutes, the real defensibility shifts down the stack - to sensors, chips, power systems, materials, manufacturing, and everything built in atoms instead of pixels.

 

as everything around us gets more digital, the tangible starts to matter more, not less. devices that move, measure, lift, track, or change something in the real world feel like the shifts that actually push society forward. but tangible, not analog.