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Taking Blogging Seriously

It’s a warm summer night in NYC and I’m walking through central park with a friend, the fireflies blink around us like an external reflection of the neurons firing in our brains as the conversation sparks.

a week ago 13 votes
Google is Grounded and Needs to Learn How to Soar

Here’s the punchline - I think Google is missing the mark with their AI search efforts. In this post I have a concrete proposal and a prototype you can try yourself that shows a different approach for the future of search. An approach that’s better for users and in a way that’s beneficial to the open web at the same time.

3 months ago 23 votes
3,573 Days On The Road

Every year on the 24th October I've written a reflection on the last year of my independent consulting. This would have been my 10th issue, but is instead a special issue, for reasons that will become apparent.

10 months ago 85 votes
Working With Founders Who Have Conviction and Taste

Consulting can be easy money. Fleecing clients for cheap tricks. Clients have problems, you have powerpoints. It’s easy to flip a few quick slides into a chunk of cash and cackle off into the mountains.

a year ago 122 votes
LinkedIn is not a social or professional network, it's a learning network

The world of work is changing.

a year ago 118 votes

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How did you go bankrupt?” Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises Every disruptive technology since the fire and the wheel have forced leaders to adapt or die. This post tells the story of what happened when 4,000 companies faced a disruptive technology and why only one survived. In the early 20th […]

2 days ago 10 votes
Dangerous mines: A death at the bottom of the EV supply chain

In Zimbabwe, the EV rush has brought a surge of Chinese investment into lithium mines. But many locals feel left out — and some have turned to stealing.

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3 days ago 5 votes
Anthropic and OpenAI Have Begun The Subprime AI Crisis

Hello premium customers! Feel free to get in touch at ez@betteroffline.com if you're ever feeling chatty. And if you're not one yet, I'm sorry that I paywalled this, but it took me so much effort and drove me a little insane. Back

3 days ago 17 votes