opinion

A collection of 59 posts

opinion

You Don't Owe Skeptics a Debate

The skeptics aren't protecting anyone. They're just mad someone built something without asking permission first.

insights

The Company That Eats Its Own Cooking

Anthropic's engineers use Claude for 59% of their work now. What happens when the people building AI are also the ones most dependent on it?

opinion

The Marketing Manager Job Is Quietly Dying

A senior marketing manager role hit my inbox this week paying $22/hr. That's not a market dip — that's a role being quietly retired. Here's what I think replaces it.

ai-workflow

The AI You Never Have to Open

Anthropic is testing an always-on agent called Conway — and it points at a version of AI that's fundamentally different from the tab you open and close.

opinion

You're Not Defending Art, You're Just Being Mean

Hannah Einbinder called AI creators "losers" who will "never be cool." Let's talk about what that actually defends — and who it hurts.

creative-tools

I Bought the Meta Glasses. Here's My Honest Take.

I own a pair of Meta Ray-Ban AI glasses and reach for them less than I expected. Here's what actually works, what doesn't, and what I'd need to change my mind.

storytelling

The Transformer: How James Gerde Turned Other People's Videos into Something Completely Different

James Gerde didn't start by generating video from scratch. He took existing footage and completely reimagined what it could look like — and that distinction turns out to matter a lot.

opinion

The Loneliness of Building Before Anyone Is Watching

An honest look at what it feels like to build something before anyone's paying attention — the self-doubt, the friends who quietly disappear, and why that first person who raises their hand changes everything.

opinion

The Permission to Start Over

The hardest part of reinvention isn't learning a new skill. It's convincing yourself you're allowed to start.

ai

Anthropic Just Dropped Their Biggest Report Yet. Here's What It Actually Means for Creatives.

Anthropic's March 2026 Economic Index and labor market research contain some of the most concrete data we've seen on what AI is actually doing to creative work.

soft skills

The Skill That Nobody Puts in the Job Description

The thing nobody puts in the job description is the last thing AI will ever replace.

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dispatch

Dispatch #5: Connection Stable

Toxic Threads

Toxic @Threads: Someone posted their first image, the internet killed them for it.

Nobody argued with what I said. They argued with what they assumed I meant.

opinion

The Violent Death of SaaS

If you are a SaaS founder sitting on a generic "workflow optimizer" or a basic CRM, you should be very, very nervous.

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dispatch

Dispatch #4: The Pirates Handshake

Toxic Threads

Toxic @Threads: So You Think You're an Entrepreneur Now? LOL.

The loudest critics usually aren't arguing with you. They’re arguing with a version of the world that doesn’t exist anymore.

Certification Featured

Reviewing the Google AI Professional Certification from Coursera

I went into this course looking for professional "proof" for my resume, but I walked away with something better: a new favorite tool for building and a reality check on corporate AI training.

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dispatch

Dispatch #3: You will find this interesting

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dispatch

Dispatch #2: Back at HQ

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dispatch

Dispatch #1 "We're on the move"

opinion

A 10X Lesson: What it means to be in business with someone

Stop begging for access. This piece breaks down what it really takes to earn proximity, remove friction, and build leverage by showing up as a participant, not a spectator.

opinion

OpenAI is Walking Off a Cliff: And Why Creatives Are Jumping Ship

After years of being a ChatGPT loyalist, I'm watching OpenAI walk off a cliff of generic updates and corporate ad placements. This post breaks down exactly why I migrated my entire creative workflow over to the Google Gemini stack.

New Creative Roles

The Context Curator: How Your "Soft" Skills Fuel the Next Generation of Business

If you’ve spent your career as a storyteller, journalist, or information architect, you’ve been training for the most important role in the AI era. In 2026, the most valuable part of any AI system isn't the code—it's the context.

opinion Featured

The Agency Model Doesn’t Fit Small Businesses Anymore

Agencies made sense when work was slow and expensive. That’s no longer true. This post breaks down why small businesses are better off moving past the agency model and building lighter ways to execute.

Toxic Threads

Toxic @Threads: You'll Never Be On My Level

The fear around AI isn’t really about quality. It’s about authority. This post examines how “experience” gets weaponized, why gatekeeping thrives during transitions, and how real craft survives new tools just fine.