What I Wish I'd Known Before Building Nightwatch
What I Learned Building Solo AI Tools: On Limits and Leverage
Solo founders building AI tools hit limits that are structural, not effort-related. Working harder doesn't fix them. Three limits and three leverage points — the ones that actually matter.
The AI Panel That Changed How I Think About Agents (Seattle Tech Week)
I expected the usual conversation about model selection and prompt engineering. What I got was a room full of builders talking almost exclusively about failure modes and environment design.
Nightwatch: What I Built When I Needed Someone to Work While I Sleep
I had a list of monitoring and research tasks that never got done. Not because they weren't important — because they required sitting at a computer. So I gave a machine the keys.
Who Owns What AGI Creates? Nobody. That's the Problem.
Creatorship of AGI David Pedersen / NW AGI Group April 2026 Abstract Roman Yampolskiy's 2022 paper "Unownability of AGI"
From AI Tinkerer to Tool Builder: Three Years of Surviving the AIPocalypse
Three years ago, I made a decision that would reshape everything: if I was going to survive the coming AIPocalypse, I would
The Woman Who Taught Me to Think Like an Entrepreneur
Sixteen years ago, I was the new guy at Whitepages, trying to figure out search marketing in a city where I barely
I Built a Psychology-Based Copy Analyzer. Here’s What 200+ Real B2B Messages Taught Me.
For the past year, I've been building SEMalytics, a content monitor that scores B2B communications against Big Five personality psychology.