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Exploring Generative AI: What It Is and How It Works for Us

If you know anything about me, you know my favorite movie series is Star Wars. It perfectly combines technology and philosophy in a way that really lights me up. Plus there’s The Force?—?you know that, “energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us; it binds the galaxy together.” One of the coolest things about the Force…

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Why Descript Buying SquadCast is Great for Podcasters

Descript made a big splash on Tuesday by announcing they acquired the popular remote recording service, SquadCast. Something I couldn’t stop thinking about after Riverside, SquadCast’s biggest competitor, launched edit via transcripts is how it felt like they’re trying to eat Descript’s lunch. After all, Descript has made a name for itself as the easiest way to edit your podcast….

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A Moratorium on Business Books for 2023

As I wrote this article, I was on vacation at the serene Bethany Beach in Delaware. My mind clear and thinking about big picture stuff as my kids napped, I thought about how I’m consuming content. In preparation for this trip, I made a decision: that I was going to stop reading business books for the rest of the year….

7 Years

I got a little reminder from Transistor, my podcast host, this morning: How I Built It is 7 years old. Over the course of 6 weeks in 2016, several life-changing things happened to me: You might read this and wonder why I’m lumping in the launch of a podcast with marriage and fatherhood, and while I don’t think they’re equals,…

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Why I Continue to Choose Airtable Over Notion

I’ve been using Notion more thanks to a little in-person Mastermind I’m planning with friends; to be honest, it’s pretty nice. I don’t really know my way around Notion, but the co-organizer who set it up absolutely does, and it looks really fantastic. In fact, this is the closest I’ve come to wanting to use it more. This rest of…

Some Quick Thoughts on Meta’s Threads

At its core, a mostly tech-based social platform is child’s play for any competent developer…but the secret sauce is in people wanting to be there. It’s why Mastodon isn’t the heir-apparent to Twitter. That platform is too hard and siloed to figure out. And since it’s not algorithm-based, it feels even emptier. It’s why Bluesky isn’t good. That platform is…

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Thoughts and Lessons from the Apple Vision Pro Presentation at WWDC

Let me start by saying before the WWDC Keynote, I wasn’t even remotely excited about Apple VR product. The Meta Quest doesn’t excite me, and when I had Google Glass, I liked it, but I didn’t love it. Suffice to say, Apple blew me away with their approach to the Apple Vision Pro. And the early reviews do not disappoint….