Decelerator with Rob Kenedi

Send Your Car to Get the Pizza

An interview in a parked Tesla about the future of autonomous deliveries

Oct 1

September 2026

Attention is all you need, dear startup

Last essay I wrote about companies looking for control of AI at the Ai4 conference, so have a read if you haven’t already.

Sep 24

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Everyone at Ai4 Was Selling Control

As I walked through the third aisle of Ai4, I was offered control, yet again, over my irresponsible agents.

Sep 4

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August 2026

How to Not Buy a Rolex

A couple of weeks ago I went to Ai4 in Vegas to see what’s transacting in the world of AI. I found out about luxury watches along the way.

Aug 21

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July 2026

Nobody knows what AI is even for. That's the point.

Everyone agreed what Amazon was for, too.

Jul 29

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Manufacturing Conviction

Lise Birikundavyi gave me the numbers before I’d finished my first question.

Jul 1

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June 2026

Two Founders, One VC, and How to Engineer Serendipity

Around 2007 I was the product owner bringing Ontario’s desktop telemedicine product to market, the public-sector version of what Maple and Dialogue…

Jun 24

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We Speedran the AI Subsidy

When I lived in New York in 2017, you could eat and get around one of the most expensive cities on earth more or less for free, courtesy of venture…

Jun 11

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I Had My Intern Count All 610 Toronto Tech Week Events

Spreadsheets and feelings.

Jun 3

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May 2026

Origination & Acceleration: the two kinds of tech event

Last year, after Web Summit’s first Vancouver edition, I wrote that the conference still felt Canadian. That for a global event’s North American…

May 27

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The Hard Part Just Moves

As I noted last week, I attended the NACO (National Angel Capital Organization) Summit and moderated a couple of panels.

May 13

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Citrus, Cannabinoids, and Canadian Capital

I’m at the Canadian National Angel Capital Organization (NACO) summit in Ottawa this week, which got me thinking about a conversation I had last summer…

May 7

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