Naivety Is the New Moat
When AI makes execution cheaper, the advantage shifts to outsiders willing to question which constraints are real.
Yaz Caleb | Essays
Essays on systems, autonomy, and building things that matter.
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Everyone Is a VC
Talent is everywhere. The first person willing to say so is not.
Minimum Viable Parents
The traits that make people build things and trauma responses are the same machinery.
Two steps, one test
People stall because they mix two kinds of thinking that dislike each other. There is choosing what to do. Then there is doing it. Separate them, and motion produces information that thinking alone cannot.
The people who don't see the whole
The most expensive mistakes come from people who fix symptoms and accidentally make the system worse.
Social Obesity
You're fat. Not physically—socially. And it's disgusting.
Make More Humans
Talent is a lottery. Play more tickets.
The Cost of Purposelessness
Busyness is not progress. This essay is about escaping the drift of a life without direction by focusing on compounding small habits, defining a clear purpose, and architecting your life to make meaningful work the path of least resistance.
Fatherhood = Founderhood
The best fathers I know aren't the ones who had it all figured out. They're the ones who built something from nothing, made hard decisions, and took responsibility for the outcome.
Childhood Was a Scam
We've been sold a story about childhood that trades genuine competence for the illusion of safety. It's time to reject the prison with cartoons.