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

The Agent Economy: 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

Running a 1-Person Billion Dollar Company: The AI Stack That Makes It Possible

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

When Knowledge Becomes Fluid: How AI Transforms Learning

Exploring how generative AI transforms static knowledge into dynamic, adaptive learning experiences. From fixed formats to fluid, contextual understanding that reshapes education and content consumption.

October 26, 2025 โ€ข ๐Ÿ“– 3 min read โ€ข Terry Chen

Turning Audience Insight Into Agent-Ready Specs

CrowdListen converts raw user conversation into structured product insight and agent-ready PM specs, preserving intent from feedback signal to executable task.

September 15, 2025 โ€ข ๐Ÿ“– 5 min read โ€ข Terry Chen