Technical Advisory
The route through cost, supply, and regulation, in the order a decision needs them
For advising a decision. The order puts enough mechanism first to read a vendor claim honestly, then the money, the supply and the law that constrain it.
- 01ModelsFundamentalsEnough of the mechanism to read a vendor claim honestly
- 02AgentsApplicationWhat an agent actually is, and which claims about autonomy survive contact
- 03EconomicsFundamentalsReturns to scale and learning curves, the shape of the spend
- 04MacroeconomicsFundamentalsRates, inflation, and cycles, the conditions the spend is committed under
- 05Compute EconomyApplicationPower, capital, and the unit economics of a cluster
- 06Supply ChainApplicationFabs, packaging, and the chokepoints nobody can route around
- 07GovernanceApplicationThe regulatory patchwork and the dates that are fixed in law
- 08Public PolicyAppendix: Tangential TopicsWho wants which rule, and why a regulator converges on the regulated
- 09EvaluationApplicationHow to tell a measured claim from a marketed one
- 10Applied EthicsAppendix: Tangential TopicsThe decisions that land on an advisor before any regulator arrives
- 11Where the Field StandsApplicationThe shape of the frontier, with its staleness stated
- 12Fermi ProblemsAppendix: InterviewsSizing a market or a spend when nobody hands you the number