When to Own Your Harness

When an agent workflow deserves its own managed interface, and when it is better left inside a general-purpose harness like Claude Code or Codex.

July 14, 2026 โ€ข ๐Ÿ“– 6 min read โ€ข Terry Chen

Why Don't People Read Books Anymore?

Why the decline in book reading is not only about social media stealing attention, but about a deeper shift in how people expect information to be packaged, previewed, and processed.

June 21, 2026 โ€ข ๐Ÿ“– 5 min read โ€ข Terry Chen

When to Use MCPs vs Skills for Agents

A practical comparison of Skills and MCPs for modern agent workflows, with implications for OpenClaw-style systems and CrowdListen product design.

March 4, 2026 โ€ข ๐Ÿ“– 8 min read โ€ข Terry Chen

Tokens as Bandwidth, Apps for Agents

A reasoned view of the agent economy: what is changing, where agent-mediated software is headed, and what product teams should build for next.

March 3, 2026 โ€ข ๐Ÿ“– 2 min read โ€ข Terry Chen

The AI Stack for a One-Person Company

The complete toolkit for building a billion-dollar company with a team of one. How AI agents handle research, coding, operations, and marketing while you focus on vision.

February 22, 2026 โ€ข ๐Ÿ“– 9 min read โ€ข Terry Chen

Feature Extraction & Multimodal Content Understanding

Fine-grained social listening for understanding crowd conversations: a framework for turning fragmented, high-volume social discussion into weighted signal and agent-ready product action.

January 15, 2026 โ€ข ๐Ÿ“– 3 min read โ€ข Terry Chen

Building Has Become Easier โ€” How Do We Fix Distribution?

Notes from working with vibe-coded builders: shipping is fast, distribution is hard, and founder-led workflows are becoming the operating layer between product capability, PRD clarity, and adoption.

December 17, 2025 โ€ข ๐Ÿ“– 3 min read โ€ข Terry Chen

Google Learn About - Interest Directed, AI Aided Learning

Google's Learn About reframes both search and chat as an explore-first learning loop, lowering the cost of asking good questions while managing cognitive load with structured, clickable cards.

November 11, 2025 โ€ข ๐Ÿ“– 9 min read โ€ข Terry Chen

CrowdListen (Archived v2025-11-09)

Transform large-scale social conversations into actionable insights. Understand crowd sentiment, track emerging opinions, and identify key narratives.

November 9, 2025 โ€ข ๐Ÿ“– 11 min read โ€ข Terry Chen

From Indexing to Understanding

Discovery is moving from static data retrieval toward systems that understand why a user is searching, not just what they type. The next generation of search experiences must merge precise recall with adaptive reasoning.

October 26, 2025 โ€ข ๐Ÿ“– 5 min read โ€ข Terry Chen