Reading Time: 2 minIn recently listening to a podcast from Gary Vaynerchuk, I realized how differently him and I see the world. While I respect what he does, and I follow a lot of his advice, it comes from a different direction. In particular, Gary provides a ton of great ideas on how to generate increasingly large amounts […]
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Using RSS to sniff out AI
Reading Time: 2 minWhile RSS has almost completely disappeared from the tech landscape, I’m still a big fan of it. I get the majority of my information via RSS, and it’s fantastic. If you’re not familiar with RSS, it’s essentially a way to subscribe to news sites and blogs. It’s not unlike getting email updates on every new […]
The evolution of websites
Reading Time: 2 minThe internet is changing rapidly, thanks to big shifts in social media and the ongoing wave of AI. Websites have largely remained the same in recent years, staying strong as the home for every business on the internet. I don’t think that will be changing anytime soon, but the nature of the sites themselves may […]
What will AI collide with?
Reading Time: 2 minI was at a recent event where Rich Beaudrie posed an interesting question: what will AI collide with? There are many examples of collisions from the past. At one point 15 years ago, we had cell phones with large screens + 3G networks + compact GPS chips and Google Maps was born. Or you can […]
Goals or not?
Reading Time: 2 minI recently read Jim Rohn’s classic book “7 Strategies for Wealth and Happiness“. As I’ve done with a few books lately, I had a brief discussion about it with GPT-4o to see if there were insights that I missed. I asked for the main takeaway from the book and got this response: One of the […]
GPT-4o is astounding
Reading Time: 2 minIt seems that every iteration of ChatGPT and similar technologies is amazing, and the new “GPT-4o” certainly continues that trend. If you’re not familiar with it, here is a quick peek: Along with just text, you can see that GPT-4o also can interpret video, images, and other info. Not only can it understand more about […]
Schools need to understand AI
Reading Time: 2 minOver the past few weeks I’ve talked to handful of high school students about how AI is being treated at their schools, and the results are largely disappointing (though somewhat understandable). Ultimately, I have three main takeaways from the conversations. Schools are scared of AI The general thought from the schools is “No AI for […]
Interruptions with unbalanced scale
Reading Time: < 1 minWhen it comes to spam, unbalanced scale is a rapidly increasing problem. It’s bad enough when one person reaches out directly to you with an unsolicited offer, but when that one person can quickly send out hundreds or thousands of those offers, things fall apart quickly. It goes back to a post from nearly a […]
The new jargon that comes with AI
Reading Time: 1 minPerhaps more than any other area, changing technology generally brings with it a slew of new acronyms and terms. We have things like HTML, DNS, SEO, HTTP, PHP and dozens of others that are used nearly every day in tech-related fields. The explosion of AI is bringing a new set of words and acronyms for […]
Who will reap the value of AI?
Reading Time: 2 minThe future of AI is still quite muddy, but it’s clear that big changes are coming. As AI continues to develop, who stands to gain the most from it? While it could be companies like ours, or perhaps huge companies like Google or Apple, I think it might benefit the average user the most. In […]