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What Smart People Don't Get About AI
They underestimate how different it is from anything they've seen before and place it in a wrong mental category, which leads to wrong conclusions.
Building AI-first Donkeycorns (and Whatsapp Wrapped)
Ideas are cheap, and execution is faster than ever, but knowing what exactly needs to be build remains a key skill.
AI Disruption and My Soviet Childhood
What my Soviet childhood taught me about the upcoming AI disruption.
7 AI Tools Saved Me 2 Weeks of Work in a 3-Day Sprint
A detailed breakdown of how I used AI for ideation, customer discovery and prototyping this week.
Get a job if you love risk
Think getting a corporate job is safe? AI changed the game: stable careers are now for risk-takers.
A cynical take on coaching
It's supposed to be different from therapy. Is it really?
Your Six-Figure Salary Depends on Not Understanding This
Before AI takes our crown as the most intelligent creatures in the near future, we must still make one intelligence decision: clearly realise where…
Donkeycorn: Grind Like a Mule, Party Like a Unicorn
AI is redefining rules of entrepreneurship and investment, enabling "donkeycorns" — low-headcount, high-revenue startups.
I Struggle To Make Sense
I wish I had more answers to offer.
What is an AI-first startup?
AI-first companies will be as different from today's tech companies as Uber is different from a taxi firm.
Gaza!
"Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal."
Am I in an AI cult? You tell me.
The thing about cults is that they don’t look like cults from the inside, only from the outside. From the inside, they look like an oasis of normality…
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