Blog

October 3, 2026 Seasoning We believed in the idea and hated the customer. Why Hao and I stopped building Tolus, and why I took an internship instead of rushing into the next thing. July 30, 2026 The Room Is the Product YC Startup School advertises talks. The things that actually changed what I’m building came from people, and one of them happened after the event was over. June 26, 2026 Make Your Value Obvious We lost the Berkeley AI Hackathon with our best project, and learned that if your value isn’t obvious in three minutes, it doesn’t count. June 18, 2026 Who Verifies the Verifier? Verification in the age of AI, and a dilemma from Tolus’s first pilot: how do you verify the verifier? June 15, 2026 Failing at Quant Trading (and What It Taught Me) My battles with quant trading — what I tried, why it failed, and what I learned.