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Use AI to Mine Your LinkedIn for Opportunities
Export your connections, hand them to AI, get leads. I have 6,339 connections on LinkedIn. Somewhere in that pile are people who could buy what I sell, or who know someone who could. Scrolling through them by hand is unpleasant and takes forever. I sell entrepreneurship programs to chambers of commerce and economic development organizations.…
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How to Host Your First AI Builder Meetup
It’s not a normal thing to hang out in a room full of people talking about AI. You might chat about it with friends every once in a while or scroll through Reddit and X. But those are sources of information, not sources of community. Given how early we still are (yes, we are still…
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Getting Married
I got married two weeks ago. The most striking moment was when we had the private dance, which was at the very end, when Sarah and I had a few minutes to dance alone. Our guests had exited the venue and were lined up, sparklers in hand, ready to send us off.
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You Might Be in Skolkovo
In 2010, Dmitry Medvedev, then Russia’s president, set out to give the country an answer to Silicon Valley. The government picked a thousand-acre plot a twenty-minute drive from the Kremlin, planned to spend four billion dollars, and brought in serious partners: MIT, Siemens, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Cisco. The point was to grow tech titans of…
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The Anti-Survey Results
A few weeks ago I asked you to do something weird. Instead of filling out a survey, you pasted a prompt into your AI and sent me what it said about you.
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AI B-roll for More Interesting Videos
“B-roll” is the term for video footage that you cut to during talking head footage to make your videos more visually interesting—it gets boring to just watch someone talk. I’ve been trying to get AI to make b-roll every six months for the last few years, checking to see if the models would improve enough to be…