February 2026
- The Signal They Chose to Ignore
Two prior posts worked through the statistics of the SB 6346 sign-in data. In the first I established the methodology and the finding. After applying a birthday-corrected collision test to separate organic participation…
- Duplicates Are Not the Problem
The Washington House is now arguing that the sign-in dataset for SB 6346 is unreliable because it contains duplicate names. The claim is simple. If the same name appears more than once, you cannot trust the totals.
- Teach to the Median, Punish the Variance
Factories exist to produce consistent, cost-effective products. That is the point. The relentless optimization of cost of goods sold is not a side effect of industrial production. It is the mandate. And it works, until…
- The Data Doesn't Support the Narrative
SB 6346 would create Washington's first personal income tax in nearly a century. A 9.9% rate on income above \$1 million, projected at \$3.4 billion annually, it passed the Senate 27-22 on party lines and is now in the…
- When Building Gets Cheap, Distribution Becomes Destiny
"Distribution is the new moat." You can find some version of that sentence in almost any startup discussion from the last year. It circulates as a take, gets liked, gets reshared, and then gets reproduced by someone else…
- Domain Control Validation Grew Up. It Only Took Thirty Years.
Let's Encrypt announced <a href="https://letsencrypt.org/2026/02/18/dns-persist-01" data-type="link" data-id="https://letsencrypt.org/2026/02/18/dns-persist-01">DNS-PERSIST-01</a> support this week. That is worth noting…
- Disdain or Design?
Washington State is not in the middle of a single policy dispute.
- You're Not Outsourcing Infrastructure. You're Outsourcing Capability.
Chamath posted this week: "Is on-premise the new cloud? I'm beginning to think yes. It's the only way for companies to not blow themselves up and have some semblance of capability in an AI world." Jason Fried dropped a…
- Agents Are More Like Humans Than Workloads. Here's Why That Matters for Identity.
This is a long one. But as a great man once said, forgive the length, I didn't have time to write a short one.
- "A Few Hours" and the Slow Erosion of Auditable Commitments
There's a pattern that plays out across every regulated industry. Requirements increase. Complexity compounds. The people responsible for compliance realize they can't keep up with manual processes. So instead of…