Hi, I’m Bhuvan.This is my commonplace book.

Tell your agent to speak to my agent

This is a loose, diarrheal stream of thoughts on commerce for AI agents, triggered by Cloudflare’s recent Wallets launch and the other increasingly weird and interesting things being built for an agent-first internet. How sure am I about any of this? Does it really matter? The year is 2032. You wake up in the morning,…

Cloudflare is on a roll

Cloudflare is shipping things like it's on steroids.

China is still building a lot of coal plants

The age of extreme job anxiety

For many at the start of their careers, things are just as bad. Government analysis last month insisted that entry-level positions were declining in line with the rest of the job market, but the general feeling that AI is wiping out starter jobs is backed up by research. The sectors worst hit are the most AI-friendly – software engineers, accountants, legal assistants, data analysts. A year ago, figures showed new graduate…

Trump is monetizing his presidency

From trade wars to military wars, anything the US president says can shift markets, and so teams of traders - as well as a host of automated computer systems - monitor his statements to perform trades within seconds. Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) now wants to charge for such market-moving information put out on its Truth Social platform. It has launched a paid service to give Wall Street firms and institutional…

The violent act of reading

I had a series of long conversations with my wonderful colleagues today. And as I was reflecting on them, what surprised me was the number of times I kept talking about reading: why they should read, why I read, how reading has helped me, and all the endless virtues of reading. I think everybody wants to read. But…

Bullish on global warming

It's all fine! Nothing to see here!