Scott Clark

Writing

Essays from Scott Clark on startup lessons and building things.

  1. How Better Evals Can Bring Abundance through Accelerated Scientific Discovery (talk recap)

    Building Thingsvideo

    My five-minute lightning talk from the Agentic AI Summit at UC Berkeley: why evals are the hinge between AI and scientific abundance, how two failed products taught me where that hinge breaks, and what I'm building because of it. Video, slides, and a slide-by-slide walkthrough.

  2. Making New Mistakes Faster as a Second-Time Founder

    Startup Lessons

    Lessons from a hard pivot: overfitting to my first company's successes, vision-market fit vs product-market fit, and making new mistakes faster.

  3. Building this blog: Part II

    Building Things

    How agents turned a decade-old blog backlog into a live site built for two readers: people, and the AI agents they send to read about you.