opinion

A collection of 69 posts

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 #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.

storytelling Featured

The Work Inside The Visual Dome

When The Visual Dome showed up in my Instagram feed, it felt like one of those accounts that was just suddenly there, as a fully formed idea.

opinion

Less Artwork. More Assets.

Commercial creative work still deserves care. But it’s often built to move, scale, and be replaced. This piece explores how understanding that context changes how we think about craft, burnout, and AI.

opinion

The Anti-AI Crowd Keeps Imagining the Wrong Player

Most professionals using AI aren’t level zero. They’re basically walking in on New Game Plus. They’ve already beaten whole chapters of the old game.

OpenAI Featured

Disney Just Pointed Sora at Its Vault

Disney announced a partnership with OpenAI today, and it lands with the kind of thud that tells you something irreversible just happened.

AI Tools Featured

When a Tool You Love Stops Loving You Back

When a company starts moving away from the people who actually enjoy their product, you feel it.

opinion

Keep Going. You’re Not Wrong for Learning This.

When you spend that much time trying to understand something new, of course you want to share it.

automation

Start Here: When AI Makes You Faster vs. Slower

AI helps the most when you don’t force it to handle the parts that need a ton of explanation.

storytelling

The Work Hidden Inside Gossip Goblin’s Worlds

Watching Zack London (better known as GossipGoblin) break down his process in a handful of Instagram stories made me rethink everything.

Prompting Featured

A Different Way of Looking at Sunsets

It turns out a machine can show us things about a sunset we never notice ourselves. Plus, try the new Sunset Generator Tool!

opinion

Why Does Vince Gilligan Hate AI?

Ultimately why Vince hates AI really is irrelevant. The biggest question I care about is which new creatives will step forward to carry the pro-AI mantle?

Toxic Threads

Toxic @Threads: Fake-Ass Robots Controlled by Slave Labor in India

A public meltdown wrapped in moral outrage. But it’s more than that. It’s tragic, because it doesn’t have to be this way.

Mailbag

Portfolio or Personal Brand?

If I were starting my creative career today, the first thing I’d do is to go all in on building my personal brand.

opinion

AI Didn’t Break Art. We Did.

Let’s be honest — most of the outrage about AI isn’t really about technology. It’s about who gets the money.

Toxic Threads

Toxic @Threads: "They're all untalented hacks!"

There’s something eerily familiar about the mob of people attacking AI art online these days, dismissing it as soulless, and ridiculing anyone who dares to experiments with it.

OpenAI

Meet ChatGPT Atlas

When your browser can write, research, and post for you, “going online” starts to mean something new.