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How to Toot Your Own Horn
Most people I work with would rather punch themselves in the face than talk about their accomplishments. They did the work. They made the thing. They assume the world will notice. The world does not notice.
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21 Ways to Get the Most Out of a Conference
Recently, I led two projects—one for the Kendra Scott Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership Institute at UT-Austin and the other for the UK Department of Investment & Trade—on how to get the most out of a conference. Their teams found these tactics useful, I’m betting you will too.
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AI vs the cursed HVAC
How a regular person used ChatGPT to solve a decade-long problem with her house.
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Why I’m Going Deep on Chinese Entrepreneurship in 2026
The first time China really showed up on my radar was ten years ago when I read The Three-Body Problem—Liu Cixin’s sci-fi epic. I was stunned by its breadth and scope; the story spans millennia and puts China in the middle of a plot to unite every country in the world to defeat alien invaders […]
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Things You Don’t Know You Don’t Know
The worst concert I’ve ever been to in my life was my own. Sophomore year of high school. A talent show was happening at my school, which was a big deal. I’d been obsessed with guitar since I was twelve. It was everything. My identity was already built around this and I was sure I […]
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How to Navigate a World of Bullshitters
David Lee Roth, Van Halen’s frontman, came off like Axe body spray in human form—loud, brash, and ridiculous. But that surface read was wrong. Underneath the show, he was playing a smarter game. Here’s how. Yes, this essay is about AI.
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My AI Startup Got Steamrolled by ChatGPT
The first time our AI business advisor recommended Viagra to solve a cash-flow problem, I should have known we were in trouble. At the time, it just felt like part of the fun. This was 2019. Before COVID, before “AI” meant ChatGPT to everyone. Back then, TikTok was still a teen fad, WeWork had just imploded, and the hottest tech IPO was Peloton. Large language models were a fringe research curiosity, not the center of the tech universe.
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The Ballmer Method for Prompting
In the late 2000s, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer always came off a bit unhinged. Sweaty and loud, he became a meme while ranting about Microsoft’s future. There’s an apocryphal story about how Steve figured out something important, that ended up being a prescient take about an AI-first world. I think about this story once a week; I hope it is equally impactful for you in how you use AI.