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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.

2 weeks ago 16 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 24 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 86 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 123 votes

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Fed up with ChatGPT, Latin America is building its own

Dozens of organizations in the region have partnered to develop a large language model that better understands Latin America’s cultural and linguistic nuances.

11 hours ago 2 votes
Developing countries: A follow-up

Checking in on some countries I wrote about a few years back.

yesterday 4 votes
Encore Anxiety

Fear of disappointing people you've already impressed is more paralyzing than fear of impressing nobody at all.

yesterday 8 votes
Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook's strategy tax

Zuckerberg on rebranding Facebook, spinning off Instagram, antitrust regulation, and more.

2 days ago 8 votes
Why tariffs haven't raised inflation much (yet)

Three possible explanations.

4 days ago 7 votes