Action Potential

The Commit Graph Escapes Engineering

What happens when every function starts working in repo-shaped systems?

May 11

The Canada Strong Fund Should Be a Startup Fund of Funds

If Canada wants a sovereign wealth fund, the Maple Eight should help make it the anchor investor for a real Canadian startup ecosystem

May 3

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April 2026

Canada Needs a Sovereign Intelligence Fund

PM Carney built the factory financing. Now Canada needs to build the factories of intelligence.

Apr 28

The Referral System Hiding in App Store Connect

How to build a real affiliate program on top of Apple’s offer codes, without paying a third party a cent

Apr 20

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Delete Typeform. Ship the Weekly Feedback Loop Instead.

How I run a self-hosted user survey flywheel in 20 minutes a week

Apr 16

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March 2026

The Codebase That Fixes Itself at 3 AM

Five Python daemons, headless Claude Code, and zero on-call pages

Mar 23

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The Investor Update That Builds Itself

How I replaced a monthly slide-deck ritual with a live web page, a Cursor skill, and API calls to six data sources

Mar 2

February 2026

We'll Always Be Designing Chairs

On human restlessness, and why AGI won't be the last word

Feb 22

Five Objections to AI I Keep Hearing (And What I Actually Think)

The concerns I think are overstated, and the two I think are real

Feb 17

The $0 Creative Department

How we built a full ad pipeline, from image generation to Meta deployment, with AI and 200 lines of Python

Feb 10

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Building a Coach That Remembers You

Shipping personalized AI without giving it a script

Feb 3

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January 2026

Consuming Davos in 30 Minutes: An Experiment in AI-Assisted Information Synthesis

How I used Anthropic's Opus 4.5 to watch 243 videos I didn't have time for, and what it taught me about the future of knowledge consumption

Jan 26

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