As 49ers Head Coach Bill Walsh wrote, and as Eric and Calvin referenced in our conversations, The Score Takes Care of Itself. Get the inputs right, and the outputs follow, in time.
Hiring new programmers has nearly stopped, but there’s never been a better time to be a consultant on integrating AI into your business.
The company with the best product often loses because they don’t have a good distribution and sales strategy.
AI is making this 10x truer in 2025.
SEO IS NOT DEAD (yet). Injured…yes, but SEO still matters.
But companies need to evolve and figure out distribution (and sales) in the age of AI.
Distribution shouldn’t be an afterthought when building in... See more
Distribution advantage from a better product and trust
I think the main reason I didn’t realize my problems were solvable was a lack of imagination. I’d never seen anyone solve problems in an agentic way, and I failed to imagine that things I hadn’t seen done could be done by me.
At last, halfway through your life, you are smart enough to see that it all amounts to nothing, even success amounts to nothing. But how does a person learn to see herself as nothing when she has already had so much trouble learning to see herself as, something in the first place? It’s so confusing. You spend the first half of your life learning... See more
Demographic shifts too - Americans aged 70 and older own almost 40% of all stocks in the US and those 55 and older own over half of all homes. It’s invisible prosperity and visible decay.