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What would make AI truly social?
A blueprint for consumer agents on the hardest and most meaningful problemIn the mid-1970s, Americans hosted or attended an average of 7.1 dinner parties a year.Explains why in Mad Men,...
What will we use our minds for?
AI, mental gyms, and the most important choice we faceIn 1867, a young journalist named Henry Morton Stanley met a man whose body he couldn’t help describing: “broad shoulders, well-formed...
What will make personal AI go big?
Four design principles behind Muse’s appealMuse launched earlier this month, and it’s the first consumer agent I’ve used that makes me think people might actually change their habits for it.I’m...
AI for No Good Reason
The most creative ways people have used AI for leisureOut of all the lives that have been lived throughout history, if you drew one at random, who would you be?This...
How to Stop Complaining About Your Software
Welcome to the era of digital hyperpersonalizationi.In 1975, Andy Warhol made the observation that “a Coke is a Coke, and no amount of money can get you a better Coke...
You Cannot Mandate an AI Transformation
A complete 10-step guide to pulling it off with care and human agencyWe have heard it so often that it now occupies the space between meme and cult mantra: AI...
Eye, Hand, AI: a letter to my daughter
The value of trying when AI makes things so easyI write a letter series for my daughter, who is now 11. This is one I gave her a few months ...
How life was different during the early Internet
AI for nostalgia’s sakeDear readers,You know those people who cannot bear to throw anything away? Every menu from a tasty meal in an exotic location, every abstract painting created by...
To All the Folks Who Are About to Be Rich
Because of IPOs, acquisitions, or just doing some damned good businessYou did it. Congrats! All your hard work and lucky stars and ancestors’ sacrifices have led you to this day:...
The Art and Excellence of Sales
7 Lessons from former Meta Chief Revenue Officer David Fischerhttps://medium.com/media/b3d0489edf784520cfcc5c5389db7ac0/hrefThe man, the legend: David FischerDavid Fischer ran revenue at Meta for over a decade.Not a region, not a vertical, but...
I am an idiot
Notes on idiocy, in the age of something smarter.i.The title says it all: I am an idiot.It used to be hard to say this. It used to be hard to...
How to Spot a World-Class Designer
7 lessons from designer, inventor and angel investor Soleio on what separate excellent from mediocrehttps://medium.com/media/1a91c961e9524457a44cc0acf555bed3/hrefThe Craft Beneath the CraftSoleio Cuervo has one of the sharpest eyes in design.He’s hired and...
What Excellent Growth Teams See That Others Miss
Watch now | A conversation with Brian Hale, Chief Growth Officer at Doordashhttps://medium.com/media/b05271f8cda4dd89b11f93b0d7960c44/href“Seeing” excellenceYour hand can never draw better than your eye can discern.They say that mallard ducks can see...
Playing Authentic Games
Intentions for 2026Happy January!I love the start of the year, the collective closing of one chapter and the opening of the next. Some people go through the holiday season with...
The Lost Art of Crying
How to build and dismantle a kingdom of icei.You may not believe this, but if you pull me apart and unpeel me layer by layer, you will discover that I...
Unsent Letter #25
To the arrogant young, newcomerAt the time when our paths crossed, all I could see in the fog and smoke of my life was your arrogance.It irked the hell out...
You’re definitely going to be a manager now
Book launch! + Predictions for the manager in the era of AIDear Readers,Today, the revised edition of The Making of a Manager drops! (Note: the revised version is paperback with...
The Making of a Founder
On conviction and the hero’s journeyWhen you rewind back to the starting point, be honest: you thought it would be easy enough.You conjured an image of yourself making — nay...
Unsent Letter #11
To the maestro who passed me byWhen I first met you, I tried to stand taller. Look bigger.You were quiet as a breeze, your manner good-natured, your visage a buddha...
When AI Has Better Taste Than You
How machines conquered our skills, infiltrated our aesthetics, and left us with one final advantageWittgenstein once wrote that when the eye sees something beautiful, the hand wants to draw it.This...