I Spent Twenty Years in the Future
On international teams, the distance between people and their countries, and the world that was supposed to be coming.
On international teams, the distance between people and their countries, and the world that was supposed to be coming.
Three companies, three bets on where platform control lives. And a geopolitical shift that might matter more than any of them.
The SaaS era was the golden age of building interfaces. What comes next rewards capability, not chrome.
Web 3 had architecture too. The difference is that Web 4.0 solves a problem people actually have.
After twenty years in software engineering and a sabbatical spent deep in agentic tooling, I kept circling a pattern I couldn’t unsee. Then the OpenClaw acqu...