Events

The debut night of Greater Philly AI, the meetup I started for builders in the Philadelphia suburbs, held at Root Down in Phoenixville with about thirty people in the room. I told the story of the personal agent I've been running on my own machine since February 2026: what it does for me on an ordinary day, how it reads and writes the real files I work in, and the places it has fallen over. I closed with what I'd tell someone who wants to build their own, and you didn't need to write code to follow along.

Keynote at the CAIC AI Study Group, with about 60 attendees from the CEIBS, Berkeley BCAIA, and Shanghai Alumni Network communities. The talk opened with the Moltbook saga of January 2026, when 1.5 million AI agents flooded into a social network built just for them in a single week, and used that as a jumping-off point to share what I've learned running my own personal AI agent on an old Mac Mini. Closing thoughts on what an always-on agent means for individuals, small teams, and a society about to get strange.

A condensed version of the talk for Founders Breakfast, an early-morning meetup for Shanghai founders and operators hosted at The Merchants in Xuhui. Same core experiment with a personal AI agent, reframed for a builder audience asking what this stuff actually means for the way they run their companies.

A hands-on workshop with the CEIBS Alumni International community on building a product without code, team, or time. The session walked the room through ideating with AI, sketching a lean canvas, building a working prototype live in v0.dev, and lining up a launch plan, all in roughly an hour. The framing was a strange compressed window in history where solo founders with AI tools can match the output of a small team, and the unfair advantage goes to whoever practices now.