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Brooks’s Law in Reverse: How Four Engineers and an AI Built a Million-User App in 28 Days

The Storytelling Gold Rush: Why Every Company Suddenly Needs a Human Voice

How AI is Changing How Programmers Work (and What It Means for the Rest of Us)

The Age of Scaling Is Dead. Welcome Back to the Era of Research.

The Gift of Being Different: What Alex Karp’s Viral Moment Reveals About Innovation and Mediocrity

The AI IPO Race: Two Companies, Two Strategies, One Market

When Graduate Students School the Machines: A Reality Check on AI Coding

How to Influence the Fox Through Content (and Why You Won’t Get Through Without His Circle)

When Social Networks Miss the AI Wave: Why ChatGPT Is Becoming the New Town Square

The Evolution of E-commerce: How AI is Changing Complex Sales

The SMOL Playbook from Hugging Face: What It Actually Takes to Train a World-Class LLM (And Why You Probably Shouldn’t)

On Sleep, Recovery, and Strategic Resilience: What Athletes and Entrepreneurs Share

Why I Write on Substack

Consulting Is Evolving - And Its Destination Is Software

AI in Medicine Isn’t About Replacing Your Doctor - It’s About Common Sense

Medical LLMs Give Different Answers to the Same Question. This Matters for Clinical Practice.

On Memories That Never Were

Your Salary Ceiling in the AGI World

Brain vs AI: The Economics of Energy and Intelligence

The Two Games We’re Always Playing

Why a Sequoia Product Leader Doesn’t Hire “Generalists”

The Hidden Cost of Overcoaching: Why Less Instruction Creates Better Athletes

About “Dead Poets Society”

What Makes Truly Successful Founders Special?

The Boring Habit That Beats Every Productivity Hack

The Mental Fight: How Boxing Taught Me to Spot Media Manipulation

On the “Founder vs Manager” Syndrome

The Shackleton Principle: What Building a Service Business Really Feels Like

When Everything Goes Wrong: Lessons from Ben Horowitz

The Sobering Truth: How Even "Moderate" Alcohol Consumption Shrinks Your Brain

On How Negative Thoughts Make You Dumber

Context Engineers - The New Profession of the AI Era

The 100-Page Prompt That Changed Everything: KPMG's TaxBot Revolution

The Four Archetypes of Product Leaders (And Why Most Companies Get This Wrong)

Death of the Utilization Pyramid: How AI Is Breaking the $1.5T System Integrator Model - Part III

Death of the Utilization Pyramid: How AI Is Breaking the $1.5T System Integrator Model - Part II

Death of the Utilization Pyramid: How AI Is Breaking the $1.5T System Integrator Model - Part I

Pharma Today - Two Parallel Worlds

The Digital Dementia: How TikTok and Instagram Are Rewiring Our Brains

Emergency GPT Kit: A Story About AI, Survival, and Taking Back Control

𝐖𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐀𝐈? 𝐂𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐝.

MIT vs AI - 5 Reasons Why Alex is Ahead of John (And Why Traditional Education is Getting Disrupted)

On Luck and Impostor Syndrome

Thoughts on Retirement

AI Psychoses: A New Trend in Psychology

The Right to Knowledge - The Right to Life

𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐀𝐩𝐩, 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤: 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐟𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐥 𝐄𝐱𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐨𝐟𝐭

Microsoft's AI-First Strategy: A Bet That's Already Paying Off

What Beverage Industry CIOs Are Really Talking About

Granola AI and the Enterprise Knowledge Connection

Bad Cholesterol, Gene Therapy, and Eli Lilly Stock: The $1.3 Billion Bet That Could Change Medicine

Illinois Just Banned AI Therapy

About avoiding negative reactions. Clay shooting and archery

Top 3 biggest business mistakes, here's what I learned about dealing with negativity in projects.

Beyond the Hype: Where Generative AI Dollars Are Actually Going

The $100K Paradox: Why High-Paying Jobs Face the Biggest AI Threat

Big dreams, small classrooms: building startups before 18

Why Founders Can't Afford to Wait

The 34% traffic drop: How AI is reshaping traditional publishing (and what to do about it)

Features on Fire, Pipeline on Ice: The AI‑CRM Paradox Explained