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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
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 126 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

Why I think this political movement isn't going anywhere in the long term.

yesterday 4 votes
Saudi Aramco wants a Google spinoff to turn its waste into wealth

The world’s biggest crude producer is partnering with SandboxAQ to turn captured carbon into profitable products.

2 days ago 5 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

3 days ago 5 votes
Should Democrats go back to neoliberalism?

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

3 days ago 6 votes
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