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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

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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 month ago 25 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.

4 months ago 26 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 88 votes
LinkedIn is not a social or professional network, it's a learning network

The world of work is changing.

a year ago 122 votes

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MAGA doesn't build anything

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2 days ago 4 votes
Is SoftBank Still Backing OpenAI?

Earlier in the week, the Wall Street Journal reported that SoftBank and OpenAI's "$500 billion" "AI Project" was now setting a "more modest goal of building a small data center by year-end." To quote: A $500 billion effort unveiled at the White

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Should Democrats go back to neoliberalism?

To some degree, yes. But what they really need is a development state.

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Unleashing the AI jobs revolution in Africa

While there are concerns that AI will eliminate jobs, in many developing countries, it can help create jobs that never existed before.

3 days ago 6 votes