The question I keep returning to is how large distributed autonomous systems — just like civilizations — collaborate. It’s a problem I’ve been working on for three decades, building infrastructure at scale, from the cluster systems that trained early transformer architectures at Google, to the Internet of Agents and the entanglement-based Quantum Internet at Outshift by Cisco. The rest of my time is split between photographing the world, reading Durant (it’s a tome), and awkwardly generating noises from my guitars.
Distributed Superintelligence
Internet of Agents // link
Multi-agent systems, enterprise agentic workflows, and the open infrastructure that lets agents discover, collaborate, and transact across vendors. Co-founded AGNTCY — now at the Linux Foundation with 80+ partners including Google, Dell, Oracle and RedHat, and formative with the A2A project and Agentic AI Foundation in LF.
Internet of Cognition // link
Connection is not cognition. The Internet of Agents was a great first step, allowing agents to discover and talk to each other. But they aren’t able to think together, yet. They cannot share intent, coordinate to solve problems or create emergent behaviors. The Internet of Cognition is the platform that allows agents to think together.
Quantum Computing
Quantum Internet · Security · Networks // link
Distributed quantum computing via networked QPUs, quantum-safe cryptography, quantum data center interconnects, and post-quantum security. Overseeing Cisco’s entanglement chip (200M photons/sec) and Santa Monica quantum lab
Coherent Cognition · Substack
Essays on interesting problems in scaling-out infrastructure for non-deterministic systems // LINK
AI operates inside the boundary of recorded human knowledge. Quantum simulates physical law directly. A foundational difference, and the problems and approaches that align to each.
We engineered the infrastructure stack around a single contract: determinism. Agentic AI and quantum computing are breaking that axiom simultaneously. This newsletter dives in.
ON THE EAR
🎼 Under Darkening Skies, Monolink, 2020 Embassy One
📢 Vikings, Ragnar, Berserkers, Valhalla & the Warriors of the Viking Age / Lars Brownworth, Lex Fridman Podcast
ON THE ROAD
ON THE SCREEN
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