The Founder’s Pendulum: Why You Feel Like a Genius and a Fraud in the Same Month
Read More →: The Founder’s Pendulum: Why You Feel Like a Genius and a Fraud in the Same MonthEighteen months ago, if you’d told me my company would cross a million dollars a year in revenue, I would have wept with joy. I’m serious. I would have printed that sentence, framed it, and hung it over my desk like a diploma. This week, sitting comfortably inside that exact reality, I spent three days…
Bolt-On AI Features Won’t Save These Billion-Dollar Business Categories
Read More →: Bolt-On AI Features Won’t Save These Billion-Dollar Business CategoriesSomewhere in a product meeting right now, a team is celebrating a feature they just shipped. They bolted AI onto their app. A little sparkle icon in the corner. A chatbot that writes captions. A “smart suggestions” panel nobody asked for. They high-fived. They updated the homepage to say “Now with AI.” They think they…
ChatGPT Isn’t an AI, Here’s What It Actually Is
Read More →: ChatGPT Isn’t an AI, Here’s What It Actually IsYou’ve been using “AI” for months. Maybe years. You’ve got opinions about it. Preferences. You’ve told people which one you like best. You’ve recommended it to friends, defended it in arguments, and built parts of your workflow around it. And there’s a decent chance you’ve been confused about what you’re actually using this entire time.…
A 68-Year-Old Prediction Is Coming True Right Now in AI
Read More →: A 68-Year-Old Prediction Is Coming True Right Now in AIThousands of AI startups launched in the last two years. Most of them are already gone. Not because they had bad ideas. Not because they couldn’t execute. Not because the big players crushed them. Because a British cyberneticist named W. Ross Ashby figured out their fate in 1956. And nobody building those tools had ever…
The Hard Truth About AI Agents (And How to Fix It with VALUE)
Read More →: The Hard Truth About AI Agents (And How to Fix It with VALUE)Somebody you follow online has an AI agent that writes four blog posts a day. Fully researched. Cited sources. Embedded videos. Internal links. The whole production. And every time they show it off, the comments fill up with the same breathless reaction. “This is insane.” “The future is here.” “I need to build this immediately.”…
Stop Counting AI Pennies. It’s Embarrassing.
Read More →: Stop Counting AI Pennies. It’s Embarrassing.You’re broke in your mind, not your wallet. That’s the only explanation for what I keep seeing play out over and over again. Someone pays $20 a month for AI, uses it throughout the month, and then the moment their usage starts running low, the panic sets in. Suddenly they’re rationing. Suddenly they’re hesitating. Suddenly…
Why People Actually Buy Products (And What Most Developers Get Wrong)
Read More →: Why People Actually Buy Products (And What Most Developers Get Wrong)Someone called Magai a “wrapper” recently. I’ve heard it before. I’ll hear it again. And every time, it comes from the same place: a person who has spent so much time thinking in systems and architecture that they’ve completely lost the plot on why humans actually open their wallets. So let’s talk about that. The…
The Marketing Lie Killing Your Success
Read More →: The Marketing Lie Killing Your SuccessEvery entrepreneur I talk to has the same marketing story. They hired someone to write blog posts. Or they committed to a YouTube channel. Or they spent three months building the perfect lead magnet. The PDF, the landing page, the welcome sequence, the follow-up drip, the whole architecture. They built the thing. They published the…
The AI Cargo Cult: Why Millions of People Are Getting Results and Still Doing It Wrong
Read More →: The AI Cargo Cult: Why Millions of People Are Getting Results and Still Doing It WrongThere is something deeply unsettling happening in the world of AI education right now. Not a scandal. Not a controversy. Something quieter. And far more dangerous. Millions of people are learning how to use AI from people who don’t actually understand how AI works. They’re following rituals. Performing the right motions. Getting results. Real, usable,…
OpenAI Just Killed Sora. Here’s Why You Should Have Seen It Coming.
Read More →: OpenAI Just Killed Sora. Here’s Why You Should Have Seen It Coming.Six months. That’s how long it took for OpenAI’s standalone video app to go from “most downloaded app in the App Store” to “we’re saying goodbye.” If that surprises you, we need to talk. Because this was one of the most predictable product deaths in recent tech history. And the fact that so many people…
Stop Automating Your Blog Posts (Yes, Even With AI)
Read More →: Stop Automating Your Blog Posts (Yes, Even With AI)I built an AI company, and I’m telling you to stop letting AI run your blog unsupervised. Weird flex? Maybe. But this distinction is the single most important thing I could tell you about content creation in 2026. And almost nobody is talking about it honestly. There’s a movement happening right now. Content creators are…
The Automation Tax: Why OpenClaw and Vibe Coding Will Cost You More Than You Think
Read More →: The Automation Tax: Why OpenClaw and Vibe Coding Will Cost You More Than You ThinkThe most expensive software you’ll ever use is the kind you built yourself. That’s not a typo. I know it sounds backwards. Building is free now, right? You just open Cursor, or Loveable, or Bolt, describe what you want, and poof, working software. Or you spin up OpenClaw on your machine, install a few community…