Writing
Thoughts, ideas, reflections, and whatever I’m working out at the time.
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AI is electricity. The harness is the appliance.
You go to ChatGPT at moments in time and start from scratch each night. Electricity you install once. The thing you build is an appliance.
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What AI actually gives one person
The conversation is about companies and jobs. The stranger part is what AI hands to one person working alone.
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Why business leaders struggle with this
Strategy and numbers, yes. What the company is actually for, at a level something could act on, much less often.
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Ask someone what they want and you get a description of the work, not the outcome. Why that gap is now the expensive one.
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AI and the history of electricity
Factories ran electricity through the steam-engine layout for forty years before rearranging the floor. Most AI adoption is still at the first step.
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Product manager at the AT&T Foundry and Rakuten, then years running programs for startups. What each side is actually good at.
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Eight years, 36 programs, around 250 startups. I wrote down what happened in every one, looking for the pattern.
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Blank vs Taleb: the test that undersamples
Get out of the building, says Blank. The story you build from having done it is exactly what Taleb warns about. Both are true.
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I ran an AI-detection audit on my own essays. Four came back red.
Five pieces I published in January and February, scored against a catalogue of AI tells. What I found and what I changed.
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What my glucose data said about my afternoons
I thought the distraction was physiological. Three and a half days of CGM data said otherwise.
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The plans were fine. The allocation wasn't.
Twelve to fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, and zero closes. Not a discipline problem.