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I Dated the Prom Queen
The statute of limitations on hard-earned lessons is collapsing.
Apr 2 • Tom Chavez
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Your Story is Your Moat
Feb 27 • Tom Chavez
Forty Years of the Wrong Floor Plan
Feb 19 • Tom Chavez
What The Man Who Coined AI Knew That We Keep Forgetting
Mar 6 • Tom Chavez
Nixon's Wet Dream
Mar 19 • Tom Chavez
"They've Got This Handled"
The VC line that's killed more startups than a competitor ever could
Mar 26 • Tom Chavez
Nixon's Wet Dream
A centralized database of every American. Fully searchable. No oversight.
Mar 19 • Tom Chavez
The Engineer Said No
A Soviet bunker, a blackmailing AI, and the case for human doubt
Mar 12 • Tom Chavez
What The Man Who Coined AI Knew That We Keep Forgetting
John McCarthy saw the wall that recursive self-improvement can't climb. Software is hitting it now.
Mar 6 • Tom Chavez
Your Story is Your Moat
A Conversation with Obama Speechwriter Terry Szuplat
Feb 27 • Tom Chavez
Forty Years of the Wrong Floor Plan
What factory electrification teaches us about $285 billion in vanishing enterprise software value
Feb 19 • Tom Chavez
Build vs. Buy Is Dead
There's a third path. And it changes who wins.
Feb 12 • Tom Chavez
Marketing’s Silo Problem
8 Lessons from Randy Rothenberg at IAB 2026
Feb 5 • Tom Chavez
The Most Honest Thing I’ve Said in a Boardroom
A note to founders on conviction without bullshit
Jan 15 • Tom Chavez
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