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MARKETING & SALESThe sentence after the ask
I was walking into a store Wednesday night and a girl outside asked if I wanted to donate to her cheer team.
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MARKETING & SALESThe sentence after the ask
I was walking into a store Wednesday night and a girl outside asked if I wanted to donate to her cheer team.
Read article ›AI throughput and the hidden constraint
AI has given a lot of people a new way to misunderstand throughput.
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Cold outbound has developed a strange idea of what personalization means.
Read article ›Reading every line of code is not rigor
Reading every line of code is not rigor.
Read article ›The dangerous thing about agent instructions
The dangerous thing about AGENTS . md is that it looks like a place to put everything you wish the agent knew.
Read article ›The Main Street benchmark for AI
Most AI benchmarks are intellectual beauty pageants for systems that would drown inside a dentist office.
Read article ›A terminal window is not product-market fit
A terminal window is not product-market fit.
Read article ›When scarcity did our thinking for us
When creation was expensive, scarcity did some of our thinking for us.
Read article ›The hardest part of security
The hardest part of security isn’t finding vulnerabilities.
Read article ›What a vulnerability makes reachable
A vulnerability only matters if it changes what becomes reachable.
Read article ›The real challenge in AI music
Most AI music discussions fixate on generation quality.
Read article ›How we choose what to listen to
Most music systems assume you choose what to listen to by name.
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