https://tomrankin.net/ 2026-04-14T10:52:41Z Tom Rankin https://tomrankin.net/blog/what-73-percent-means 2026-03-25T12:00:00Z

Most of our AI requests are answered without asking a language model. Here's what that looks like in practice.

Tom Rankin https://tomrankin.net/blog/filing-patents-from-a-laptop 2026-03-15T12:00:00Z

Sixteen provisional applications. Pro se. Sixty-five dollars each. From a laptop in Tucson.

Tom Rankin https://tomrankin.net/blog/the-people-who-showed-up 2026-03-01T12:00:00Z

I didn't hire a team through job postings. Greg called because he believed in what I was building. Jerick showed up because he'd seen the vision.

Tom Rankin https://tomrankin.net/blog/naming-the-company 2026-02-08T12:00:00Z

The eigenvalue survives every transformation unchanged. Hitchens believed clarity was a moral obligation. Put them together.

Tom Rankin https://tomrankin.net/blog/why-i-left-springfield 2026-01-15T12:00:00Z

My mom has COPD. She needs warm, dry air. I need somewhere I can build without burning cash. So I loaded the Jeep and drove west.

Tom Rankin