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The Machine I Can't Turn Off

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -0500

I told my partner the other night that I can never turn the Mac Studio off.

There’s a job on that machine at 11:45 at night. One at 3:30 in the morning. One at five, one at seven. Every one of them is an agent. It wakes up, reads something, thinks about it with a model that runs entirely on the chip under my desk, writes something down, and goes back to sleep.

Why personal AI belongs on hardware you already own

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Tim Cook stepped down this week. The next CEO of Apple is John Ternus, the hardware engineer who ran the Mac transition to Apple Silicon. The new Chief Hardware Officer is Johny Srouji, who built the chips that made the transition possible. Two hardware people at the top of the company, in the same month the cloud AI labs are losing money on their best customers.

Nate B. Jones made the case that this is Apple declining the race the rest of the industry is running and lining up for a different one. I think he’s right, and I want to add what I can only add from inside it: this is the race I’ve already been running on a four-year-old machine under my desk, and the people I trust are starting to run it too.

Running real models locally on a Mac Studio that isn't new anymore

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I have a multi-generational archive of handwritten family letters in my house, and I wanted to read it without sending the private content to a cloud provider. The first post is the why. This one is the how, on the specific hardware I already own, with the software I landed on.

My Mac Studio is almost four years old. M1 Max, 64 GB of RAM. It’s proven more than capable of running large language models locally. It keeps private content in the house, and it costs a lot less than any cloud provider.