One of the difficult parts of applying AI to existing processes and products is that people aren’t calibrated on what generative AI can and can’t do.

Writing a specification with sufficient detail to know exactly what software one should build is as much work as writing the code itself.

When asked to draw a random number between 1 and 10 and any color, most people choose the number seven and the color blue.

I want to be able to use generative AI in spreadsheets to solve unique problems.

When selling a B2B SaaS product to a wide range of company sizes (e.

Selling something is already difficult enough but when you have to sell the problem first, it’s even hRder.

A lot of startups have a business model which roughly equates to: put a dollar in, get two dollars out.

Global crises happening all at once re-inforce one another making the effects larger than any individual crisis alone.

In an episode of Boy Meets World, Shawn is in a competition of who can wait longest on a billboard suspended high up in the air in order to win tickets to the Super Bowl.

The other day I noticed a tweet from Justin Duke which outlined a plan to get his company’s codebase ready for Devin—a programming focused generative AI product.

Net magic number is a measurement of go-to-market (GTM) efficiency for SaaS businesses.

Most managers, at best, are a form of benign neglect. Continual attention (micro management) usually results in the opposite of what a manager hopes for—less motivation from employees, learned helplessness, and worse performance.

A survey from Deloitte found that 43% of companies see compliance as their greatest challenge and several key trends.

When companies run surveys and industry analysis that they share with the media, they’re gaining exposure for themeselves.

The “the first AI software engineer” Devin, from Cognition Labs, was found to be fixing bugs of it’s own doing, solving problems in a roundabout way, and taking a long time, in a debunking video by a human software engineer.

What if the entire services industry merges with SaaS when it becomes possible to deliver a service with artificial intelligence?

I try to be careful about what I read in the morning as that has a way of setting the tone for the day.

Henrietta Lacks passed away from cervical cancer in 1951, but her cells have been continuously used in medical tests due to their ability to replicate quickly.

A products is not just collection of features, but a promise to solve a problem or enhance the customer’s life in some material way.

The energy spent making a decision should be proportional to the consequences.

While well intentioned, a utilitarian approach to maximizing expected value of the greater good (or minimizing suffering) has unintended side effects.

Knowledge collapse is the paradox where increasing access to certain types of knowledge actually harms understanding.

Business strategy should concisely answer who the most import customers are, how to attract them, and what the entire company must work towards to win that market.

The big orange cones with steam coming out of them in Manhattan are from the leaking network of steam pipes that heat commercial buildings.