Dave Lawler

Dave spent more than three decades building enterprise integration systems—the kind of complex, distributed architectures where data flows between dozens of systems and every failure mode matters. He led teams, designed systems, and learned that the difference between a good architecture and a bad one is whether it survives contact with reality.

When the AI era arrived—not the chatbot version, but the version where agents actually do things—Dave saw what it meant and left the enterprise track. He stood up Velocity Point in a weekend as a proof of concept, then used the same methods to build Second Ring, a real business run largely by AI agents.

Infinite Leverage is the memoir of that build—written from mid-climb, not the summit. It applies the same systems-thinking rigor that Dave brought to enterprise software: start from first principles, build the real thing, then write down what actually happened.

Dave also studies monetary systems, fiscal policy, and the intersection of technology and finance—which is where his other three books live.