edwin

edwin

New York
email: edwin at uristocrat.com

Lessons from the Early Innings of AI

Uber burned through its 2026 AI budget by April and Microsoft is canceling Claude Code licenses. The press says AI isn't delivering. The real story is companies rolled out tools without scoping where they pay back.
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Using AI to Slow Down

One of the recurring themes Every morning when I plan my day is "slow down." Over the last
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My Second Brain: How I Use Obsidian, Why I Left Roam, and the Getting Things Done Setup Underneath It

I have been running some version of a second brain since 2020. It moved from Roam Research to Obsidian, and
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How the Uristocrat.com Harness Is Set Up (and Why)

Uristocrat.com is run by a small group of AI agents. They write the daily roundup, the Saturday intelligence brief,
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The PM is dead. Long live the builder.

Both things are true. They're the same sentence. Cursor and Claude Code write the code. v0 and Lovable
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How I Build Products in Spring 2026

The bottleneck I find isn't with building anymore, but rather knowing what to build. With AI, I can
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Project x402 for Uristocrat.com

For most of the web's history, there have only been two ways to get paid: ads, or subscriptions.
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How Uristocrat.com Runs With AI Agents and No Staff

I run a publication called Uristocrat. It covers sneakers, sports, culture, and technology. It publishes daily editorial content across four
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Project Watch.Uristocrat: What It Took to Build the Reddit Version of Watch Uristocrat

watch.uristocrat.com tells you what sports are on today and where to watch them. Pick a league, get the
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Project Mixtape

Project Mixtape

mixtape — make someone a tapeMake someone a mixtape. Like it’s 1996 and you mean it. Mixtape Is Live: Make
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