Category: AI
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Postcards from Brunei
I just got back from Brunei, where I spent a week running an AI-focused entrepreneurship program. This was my first time in Southeast Asia, so I was going in blind. What I got was a week of wonderfully spicy food, genuinely warm people, and a country full of surprises. If I get the chance to return (and…
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How to Navigate a World of Bullshitters
David Lee Roth, Van Halen’s frontman, came off like Axe body spray in human form—loud, brash, and ridiculous. But that surface read was wrong. Underneath the show, he was playing a smarter game. Here’s how. Yes, this essay is about AI.
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My AI Startup Got Steamrolled by ChatGPT
The first time our AI business advisor recommended Viagra to solve a cash-flow problem, I should have known we were in trouble. At the time, it just felt like part of the fun. This was 2019. Before COVID, before “AI” meant ChatGPT to everyone. Back then, TikTok was still a teen fad, WeWork had just…
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Not Every Utterance is Sacred
Humans have always found strange ways to make big decisions. In the 6th century BCE, people seeking answers to life’s big questions traveled to a remote mountainside in Greece to speak with a woman seated above a crack in the earth. She inhaled vapors that rose from the stone, slipped into a trance, and began…
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The Ballmer Method for Prompting
In the late 2000s, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer always came off a bit unhinged. Sweaty and loud, he became a meme while ranting about Microsoft’s future. There’s an apocryphal story about how Steve figured out something important, that ended up being a prescient take about an AI-first world. I think about this story once a…