Stage 3 · Talks and writing
Talks, the book, and writing
The latest from YouTube, the book, two talks on tape, and recent essays, with every channel at the end.
On YouTube
New videos every week at @kent.langley
Longer pieces on putting AI to work inside a real business, and short ones most days.
The book
- Founder Scaled2026. The AI-powered playbook for building a business worth buying, even if you never sell. Read it online.
Writing
The 500-Year Pattern
Five hundred years of technology waves point one direction in aggregate: employment recovers and new work appears, while specific cohorts still pay the price. Why AI will not break the pattern, and the founder instruction it yields.
The Greek Premium
LLMs collapsed the price of competent output and the market is repricing judgment. The Socratic, Aristotelian, and Platonic premiums name the work that just got expensive, plus three moves for Monday.
Does Technology's Good Outweigh Its Bad?
A research compendium on whether technology nets out positive for humanity: offense-defense theory, Pinker's optimism, existential risk, and the recurring pattern of offense spiking first while defense catches up.
Hello, World, Five Ways
Five Hello, World programs written and verified through a three-stage agent pipeline. Three ran for real, two passed by inspection, and the line counts trace how much ceremony each language demands.
Channels