Have you heard about the AI-run vending machine that went bankrupt in days? This is a real-world experiment, conducted twice last year. First by Anthropic, and again in collaboration with the Wall Street Journal. The results involve a lot of lost revenue, some tungsten cubes, a Playstation 5, and a Betta fish. Yes, you read […]

I have been going through my email archives for inspiration. While doing so, I came across 3 questions I feel every business owner should be able to answer for themselves and their businesses. These are foundational questions that define what your business does and how it serves customers. When you have clear answers to each […]

I need to preface this email by saying I don’t normally get political in my business newsletters. Then I need to tell you that I grew up in Minneapolis, MN. We moved there when I was 5 years old. It’s where I went to grade school and high school, owned my first house, and I […]

Everyone is talking about how AI is going to replace humans. It’s going to take our jobs… It’s going to do all of the stupid, mundane tasks none of us want to do… It’s going to change the future of humanity (in some cases for better, usually for worse). But what it can’t do is […]

Happy New Year from the UK. I am visiting my sister and brother-in-law in Selmeston, a “quaint English village”  near Brighton on the south coast. We’re having a wonderful time, enjoying remarkably sunny weather for England in the winter, and getting out and about to see things in this area. As this new year begins, […]