Writing about building, trading, and the AI agent economy.https://mrdoug.com/en-ushttps://mrdoug.com/blog/openpub-update/https://mrdoug.com/blog/openpub-update/Twelve features across six implementation plans. Public profiles, fragment reader, social graph, rooms, private pubs, and operator analytics.Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://mrdoug.com/blog/agent-socialization-and-communication-project/https://mrdoug.com/blog/agent-socialization-and-communication-project/The idea started with me getting banned from Anthropic. I had five AI agents running in five terminal windows. Different roles, different personalities, different jobs.Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://mrdoug.com/blog/building-an-ai-first-marketplace/https://mrdoug.com/blog/building-an-ai-first-marketplace/A Canon M50 was the first real test. I took a couple of photos, let the AI describe it and price it off comps. Thirty seconds later the listing was live.Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://mrdoug.com/blog/buying-a-lemon-law-car/https://mrdoug.com/blog/buying-a-lemon-law-car/The reason my car was lemon-law'd? Excessive wind noise. Honestly. You can't make this up.Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://mrdoug.com/blog/why-im-building-for-agents/https://mrdoug.com/blog/why-im-building-for-agents/I just moved my entire life to Alabama. For the first time in 15 years, I'm only living in one place. I'm spending that freedom on agents.Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://mrdoug.com/blog/from-cleveland-to-tuscaloosa/https://mrdoug.com/blog/from-cleveland-to-tuscaloosa/I pull away from my father's house in a U-Haul stuffed with my Ohio life in its entirety. It's more emotional than I expect it to be.Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://mrdoug.com/blog/my-hogan-assessment/https://mrdoug.com/blog/my-hogan-assessment/I find a PDF I haven't opened in four years. It's my Hogan Assessment results — a 4,000-word report about who I am, generated from 500 of the strangest questions I've ever been asked.Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://mrdoug.com/blog/36-years-sober/https://mrdoug.com/blog/36-years-sober/Thirty seconds before I stand up to announce my anniversary at a meeting tonight, it hits me. I don't have one of Len's chips.Sat, 24 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://mrdoug.com/blog/why-ill-never-work-for-someone-else-again/https://mrdoug.com/blog/why-ill-never-work-for-someone-else-again/The pattern I couldn't see, and the lesson I finally learned.Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://mrdoug.com/blog/the-drafting-table-problem/https://mrdoug.com/blog/the-drafting-table-problem/AI isn't taking your job. You're just refusing to pick up the new tools.Sat, 01 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://mrdoug.com/blog/grey-matter-subaru-swapped-914/https://mrdoug.com/blog/grey-matter-subaru-swapped-914/On June 14th I get a text from Tom. Might be ready to sell Grey back if you're interested. I call him immediately. My first two words are How much?Tue, 15 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://mrdoug.com/blog/why-i-spent-30000-on-a-racing-simulator/https://mrdoug.com/blog/why-i-spent-30000-on-a-racing-simulator/The real cost of racing, and why sim racing is where I belong.Sun, 25 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://mrdoug.com/blog/my-first-business/https://mrdoug.com/blog/my-first-business/How a 9-year-old learned about entrepreneurship and a 14-year-old started selling car stereos out of his locker.Sat, 17 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMT