Author: Barnaby Robson

What tinkering with agents at home taught me about deploying them at work

An eyewateringly large dinner, a business class seat that doesn’t recline, and a NASA engineer who changed history with a nine-page memo. First impressions of America at forty-five.

The bottleneck used to be information overload. Now AI handles the mechanical work — and the real challenge is knowing what to pay attention to.

Perfect highways, better consumer products than the West, and a surveillance state that makes it all feel slightly too clean. Notes on a country that builds while others deliberate.

Ten days driving cross-country from Delhi to Udaipur. Traffic as a contact sport, English better than yours, and a country that oscillates between boundless energy and voluntary chaos.

Notes from Richard Koch’s ‘The 80/20 Principle’ on finding where you actually make money, focusing on the 20% of customers providing 80% of profit, and eliminating the rest.

A strategic guide to the 80/20 Principle and the nature of unequal results. Visual notes from the book the 80/20 Principle by Richard Koch

AI’s cost base is beginning to shift. Gemini 3 and Anthropic’s move to TPUs show that state-of-the-art models no longer require Nvidia hardware.

Crypto Innovations, Narratives & Crashes (2008–2025)

Notes from the Founders Podcast on Elon Musk

Notes from Simon Sinek’s The Infinite Game – and parallels to the AI “Race”

Notes from the book Breakneck by Dan Wang.