Author: Barnaby

In 2023 the bottleneck was capturing information. In 2026 it’s processing it. An updated guide to building a personal knowledge pipeline with AI agents, Obsidian, and plain markdown files.

Authoritarian capitalism at 1.4 billion people. Notes from a recent trip on infrastructure that shames Europe, consumer products that have overtaken the West, and a surveillance state that makes it all feel slightly too clean.

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. On balance, not bad.

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.

Big tech are making a huge bet on AI Compute. Whether this pays off is the key investment question of 2025.

Notes from the book Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.