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I’m Mike. This blog is about living longer, healthier, and happier — and about the products and agents I build along the way. Start with the latest posts, a featured piece, or browse more below.
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Rebooting with Third Places
After a year of agent identity work, events, and Matchwise, I'm doubling down on Third Places: using your AI agents to understand you, then choose where to go and who to walk up to so you live longer, healthier, happier, and prosper.
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Paving The Way For Decentralized A2A Authentication
I've been heads down the last six weeks on a number of agentic projects, all of which hinge on the security of agent to agent communication. Today I'm happy to share that the official Agent2Agent (A2A) Protocol has integrated authentication hooks I've written into their Javascript SDK. There are many
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Great Questions at the Conversational AI event
Last night David, Arjun, and myself hosted another event at VCNest focused on Conversational AI. I kicked off the event with a quick definition of conversational AI, and some level-setting ecosystem diagrams. We then dropped into tech with Arjun presenting a demo of Langflow, Astha, and Infobip I then did
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Supporting Google's Javascript A2A library with the Agentic Profile
Today I submitted a pull-request (PR) to add Decentralized ID (DID) and JWT authentication support into Google's brand new A2A Typescript library. I've already written a lot about this in prior blog posts, so I'll give the quick summary of providing universal authentication and user/business/gov scoped identity to
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Welcome Back Eliza! (And how A2A+DID breathes new life into an old friend)
Most people know conversational AI from ChatGPT and the enormous strides generative AI has made in the last few years. Few know how far back AI researchers have been working on this challenge - since 1964!
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Matchwise is now using Google's A2A
Last month I published a Javascript/Typescript A2A SDK including client and service libraries. I'm a firm believer in dogfooding your own products, so last week I converted Matchwise to use the A2A libraries I have published. A2A is a lower level protocol and doesn't support multi-tenancy (the ability of
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Presenting A2A + Agentic Profile at Google's Gemini Workshop
I had the good fortune to present my new A2A SDK and discuss the Agentic Economy at Friday's Gemini Workshop in Mountain View. Thank you so much to Peter Danenberg, Jay Yao, and Justin Woo for hosting these workshops - these are some of my favorite gatherings in the bay