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Oct 26, 2025: Be Wary of Sycophantic Assistants -- The Next Platform Commoditization Breaker All chat platforms and LLM tools have become commodified tasked with creating as much lock-in as possible for users. In general, most GenAI power …
Oct 20, 2025: The Learning Curve of Agentic Browsing With agentic browsers all the rage, it’s understandable that in these early days – it’s still confusing for the average consumer to …
Oct 19, 2025: Finished reading: 107 Days by Kamala Harris 📚
Oct 18, 2025: Finished reading: A Higher Loyalty by James Comey 📚
Oct 17, 2025: The Electric Vehicle Imbalance: East vs. West As United States' EV tax credits have faded away into nothing, other regions such as the EU and China have doubled down on adoption because it’s …
Oct 16, 2025: Apple Loses More Talent to GenAI Firms Apple continues an innovation brain drain with Siri, as Meta just recently hired Ke Yang to oversee the revamp of its lagging voice and GenAI …
Oct 7, 2025: Quick Hit: ChatGPT Allows Third-Party Tie-Ins 🧑💻 Platforms and ecosystems are everything. LLM products are no different. OpenAI’s ChatGPT is allowing apps like Zillow, Etsy, and Spotify to …
Oct 1, 2025: You Don't Have to Write Constantly, Just Write Something Writing is one of the most important forms of communication next to verbal. The essence of the internet makes this vital for all kids of transactions …
Sep 30, 2025: The Infancy of Ecommerce Through Agentics Has Begun 🛍️ We are starting to see the beginnings of agentic ecommerce through OpenAI’s ChatGPT, according to The Wall Street Journal. 🛒 The US based …
Sep 27, 2025: The Latest in Gaming Consolidation: Electronic Arts Yesterday, it was reported that a group of private equity investors including the Saudi Public Investment Fund, Jared Kushner, and Silver Lake were …
Sep 25, 2025: Finished reading: Something Lost, Something Gained by Hillary Rodham Clinton 📚
Sep 22, 2025: Nvidia and Intel -- There's Only One Winner When considering Nvidia’s GPU and parallel computing dominance, it’s important to take a look at how it can capitalize on product growth …
Sep 20, 2025: Your Job Is Not Your Life -- Work on Finding Your Place Our jobs and careers do not define us, despite the first question many new contacts make, “What do you do for work?” To someone like me, I …
Sep 8, 2025: ASML's Big GenAI Investment in Mistral Dutch semiconductor tooling supplier, ASML announced that the firm is investing $1.5 billion in the French GenAI company, Mistral. As a result, ASML …
Sep 7, 2025: Have My Agents Talk to Your Agents Last week, Atlassian, the SaaS company that owns such products as Jira, Confluence, and Trello announced that it would be purchasing The Browser …
Aug 27, 2025: A Quick Note on "Apple in China" by Patrick McGee Finished reading: Apple in China by Patrick McGee 📚 📚 After reading “Apple in China” by Patrick McGee, it was reiterated why Apple slowing …
Aug 18, 2025: Finished reading: Magazine by Jeff Jarvis 📚
Aug 18, 2025: WSJ Study on Career Skill Certificates Job skill certificates from the likes of Coursera or edX are exactly what you make of them. They are a jumping off point for learning new skills and …
Aug 15, 2025: Some Personal Reflections Going into My 38th Birthday 📅 When we begin our New Years Resolutions, most are lucky if we get through the first couple of days. My personal journey has been a different story. …
Aug 9, 2025: The Great Commodification of LLMs The price wars in LLMs have begun. This will lead to margin collapse in the industry, while consumers benefit. Alternatively, one of the only …
Aug 4, 2025: Finished reading: Zillow Talk by Spencer Rascoff 📚
Jul 31, 2025: Finished reading: Feel-Good Productivity by Ali Abdaal 📚
Jul 23, 2025: Finished reading: Electrify by Saul Griffith 📚
Jul 22, 2025: MIT Technology Review Comment: Don't Ban ChatGPT in Education Like all new technologies in education, the initial response is to ban them. Consider Wikipedia, for example. Over a decade ago, the resource was …
Jul 9, 2025: Finished reading: Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Yo… by Tiago Forte 📚
Jul 8, 2025: Knowing Your Workflow for Note Taking 🔖 In my quest to become more knowledgeable in topics and subjects that are either relevant to me or my career, I like to use tools such as Obsidian …
Jul 2, 2025: Finished reading: No Rules Rules by Reed Hastings 📚
Jul 1, 2025: Making Siri Great Again If true, this Bloomberg report would be one of those rare instances that Apple would admit defeat – at least for the time being. Partnering with …
Jun 29, 2025: Finished reading: Desi Arnaz by Todd S Purdum 📚
Jun 27, 2025: I Have LLMs Critique My Writings and Posts Continuing on the theme of LLMs enhancing your own work rather than replacing it. I had several platforms sift through and critique my writings on my …
Jun 26, 2025: GenAI is Still Not Replacing You Back in 2023, when LLMs and GenAI was still in its infancy, I argued that GenAI will be a tool for those in the job market and change the workflow of …
Jun 25, 2025: Finished reading: Nuclear War by Annie Jacobsen 📚
Jun 23, 2025: Finished reading: Quantum Supremacy by Michio Kaku 📚
Jun 21, 2025: AI and Learning: There's a Major Disconnect Occurring in Education Just like with all industries and applications, the use of LLMs is literally rewriting all of the best practices with education currently being the …
Jun 20, 2025: Finished reading: AI Valley by Gary Rivlin 📚
Jun 7, 2025: Google's Gemini will Contain Ads -- It's Only a Matter of Time It’s common knowledge that Google is an advertising company first and foremost. All of the products weave together this ad network that a lot of …
Jun 5, 2025: Article Recommendation: "Want to Use AI as a Career Coach? Use These Prompts." 🏫 Harvard Business Review published an excellent article on using LLMs (GenAI) as a career coach. 🧠 As usual, be careful and watch out for …
May 30, 2025: The Real Danger of Misinterpreting AI Believing AI is sentient leads to false expectations—some may trust AI’s recommendations without skepticism, assuming they are the result of …
May 28, 2025: Finished reading: Illiberal Trends and Anti-EU Politics in East Central Europe by Astrid Lorenz 📚
May 25, 2025: Reading Update: The First Half of 2025 Below are some of the highlights of my readings for the first half of the year. As I’m always on a journey of knowlege of self-improvement, I …
May 25, 2025: Finished reading: Who Knew by Barry Diller 📚
May 17, 2025: Navigating the Future: Why Mastering LLMs is Essential for Today's Students & Workers After reading this piece on CNBC’s website regarding how students should be using AI (I still prefer the term LLMs for purposes of nobody can …
Apr 26, 2025: TechCrunch’s frequently updated “Cyber Glossary” is an essential resource for anyone seeking clarity on cybersecurity jargon. …
Apr 24, 2025: “Business sentiment in Germany unexpectedly edged up in April, likely an endorsement from firms of government policies to boost spending on …
Apr 23, 2025: Google & Meta Share a Common Antitrust Thread: Advertising Google and Meta have come under vast amounts of antitrust scrutiny over the past few years, especially in the US and the EU. It’s important to …
Apr 22, 2025: Finished reading: 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari 📚
Apr 20, 2025: A Quick Comment on the history of American Xenophobia -- From Japan to Russia to Latinos I’ve been very concerned about the hatred and negative rhetoric I’ve seen towards the Russian people on social media. We must not demonize …
Apr 17, 2025: Finished reading: On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder 📚
Apr 17, 2025: Finished reading: Facts and Fears by James R. Clapper 📚
Apr 10, 2025: Experiences Using Micro.blog so Far in 2025 It’s been a few months now since I started using Micro.blog as my main website and posting service, so I thought I would take some time to …
Apr 9, 2025: Finished reading: America’s New Map by Thomas P.M. Barnett 📚
Apr 1, 2025: Finished reading: Beneath a Surface by Brad Sams 📚
Mar 31, 2025: Finished reading: Playing to the Edge by Michael V. Hayden 📚
Mar 24, 2025: Finished reading: Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams 📚
Mar 17, 2025: Finished reading: The Sirens' Call by Chris Hayes 📚
Mar 15, 2025: A Quick Conversation about Apple's AI & Siri Problem In the technology sector, if you aren’t innovating, you’re falling behind. This is no different for Apple, who is not used to being behind …
Mar 14, 2025: Finished reading: The Gutenberg Parenthesis by Jeff Jarvis 📚
Mar 5, 2025: Finished reading: From Cold War to Hot Peace by Michael McFaul 📚
Feb 28, 2025: Interview with Stephen Wolfram on AI and Machine Learning I don’t normally share clips from podcasts I listen to, but in this case, it’s well worth it. On Intelligent Machines, Episode 808, the creator of …
Feb 23, 2025: Finished reading: Hit Refresh by Satya Nadella 📚
Feb 20, 2025: Finished reading: The Genesis Machine by Amy Webb 📚
Feb 13, 2025: I completed reading “Play Nice” by Jason Schreier.
Feb 10, 2025: Finished reading: Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum 📚
Feb 9, 2025: The Strategic Shift: Why UPS is Rethinking its Amazon Partnership and What it Means for Last-Mile Delivery We’re well in the middle of earnings season, but something stood out to me regarding a firm in particular. UPS revealed a significant shift in its …
Feb 6, 2025: Finished reading: The Big Nine by Amy Webb 📚
Feb 4, 2025: One of my goals going into 2025 was to talk less and listen more. In this goal, I’m attempting to become more knowledgeable and a more …
Jan 31, 2025: Finished reading: Chip War by Chris Miller 📚
Jan 30, 2025: DeepSeek's Surprise Entrance into the AI Arena DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup, has rapidly become a major disruptor in the AI landscape with its new AI model, R1. This model has gained global …
Jan 24, 2025: Ditching Instagram: Focusing on Meaningful Connections Yes! You heard it here first. Like all of you, I was excited for Instagram when it first hit the scene back in late 2010 and still had my original …
May 28, 2023: LLMs will Augment Employment; Not End it. LLMs, such as GPT-3.5 & 4 developed by OpenAI, possess impressive language processing capabilities. However, despite their remarkable abilities, LLMs …
Jan 23, 2023: Finished reading: Trailblazer by Marc Benioff 📚
Jun 21, 2022: Divestiture Debrief: The Kellogg Split Earlier this morning before the bell, Kellogg announced that it would be splitting itself into three-separate tax-free spinoffs: the slow growing …
Mar 23, 2022: On this Day in 2001: The Robert Hanssen Case Yesterday, I was reminded on LinkedIn that yesterday in 2001, the State Department notified the Russian government that four of its diplomats were …
Nov 22, 2021: Apple's Newest Diversification: Business Essentials Much like your own investment portfolio, companies continually must diversify to negate the ebbs and flows of their business segments. Up until 2001, …
Nov 15, 2021: Google's Tensor: The Data Company's Data Chip Ever since the release of the iPhone in 2007, Apple has designed and fabricated its own chips for its own devices. At the time, "owning the supply …
Nov 8, 2021: Primary Source Material is Crucial for Facts & Research Back in college we all had access to those often bulky, hard to use research databases, that sometimes worked, but often steered us in the wrong …
Feb 14, 2021: One Year at a Non-Profit Volunteering has always been a part of my personal ethos. I'm reminded of my time as an AmeriCorps VISTA at Engaging Creative Minds, which I spent a …
Feb 5, 2021: A Reminder of Intelligence Leadership and National Oversight As the Intelligence Community (IC) works to rebuild trust between its agencies, it's citizens, and other partner nations, this is a great time to …
Jan 29, 2021: A Primer on Apple's Q1 2021 Earnings I won't normally write about quarterly earnings reports from companies. You can get that story from many various sources. For the purposes of this …
Jan 19, 2021: Arms Race in the Arctic Gone are the days of the threat of nations stockpiling ICMB's to deter one another from catastrophic launches, and the last known war. With the threat …
Jan 11, 2021: The Edge Case: Redux For years now, businesses have migrated a full cloud solution; if not in the process of adopting a hybrid system at the very least. The continual …
Jan 7, 2021: The Rush to Public Over the course of 2020, the global IPO market was on fire. For these purposes, I'd like to focus on the United States market. The stock market …
Jan 4, 2021: Assessing U.S.-China Diplomatic Solution to North Korea Note: This piece was originally published at RealClear Defense on January 16, 2018. During the past year, The Trump Administration and the Kim Jong-Un …
Jan 4, 2021: Options for U.S. Sanctions Towards Russia for Aggression in Ukraine Note: This piece was first published on Divergent Options on April 17, 2017. National Security Situation: U.S. economic sanctions towards Russia …
Jun 24, 2017: Why I'm Taking a Year to Volunteer Life experiences make up the structure of a person. Choosing to give time and effort takes dedication and sweat equity. Some may choose to give …
Jan 23, 2017: Finished reading: The Plot to Hack America by Malcolm Nance 📚
Oct 13, 2016: Agile Methods Aren't Just for Startups The very definition of agile is the ability to move quickly, make changes, and adapt as needed to changing circumstances. Agile is a frequented term …
Jan 1, 2013: Finished reading: The Next 100 Years by George Friedman 📚
Feb 27, 2012: Finished reading: Gutenberg the Geek by Jeff Jarvis 📚