🧠 A new report from Bain finds AI has the potential to double the time sales reps spend actually selling and increase win rates by over 30%. Teams fall short when they run small experiments on scattered tasks, because sales work is fragmented, data is messy across tools, and

That “MIT study” on AI pilots failing keeps being circulated with dramatic headlines The methodology doesn’t allow general conclusions about failure rate. It is from 52 convenience interviews with vague methods (Though most pilots not scaling is normal for first experiments)

EXACTLY -- Workslop is a management challenge, not an indictment of GenAI tools. - Stop hiring lazy people that are not committed to excellent work. - Reject workslop instead of fixing it. The headline was designed for engagement, not to offer solutions.

Artists: Please don't let AI make your music. It can help you in other ways: * Mixing suggestions or identifying effects * Marketing assistance (but not AI generated videos) * List compiling (clubs, promoters, etc) BUT MAKE YOUR OWN MUSIC! We can hear the difference.

Read CH 1, 2, and 3 of this book. Go into debt if you have to.

In 2023 there was a big uptick in companies marketing their products as “AI powered”. 2026 will be the year of companies marketing their products as “AI free” (a trend already underway)

Best advice for any (not already well known) person considering starting a podcast

User : Write like a human. AI : I am large language model.

Craft Is the Antidote to Slop "The devil’s oldest strategy is, of course, promising godlike creation without godlike effort."

The longer I build the more I discount the idea and value the execution

Julian Schrittwieser doesn’t tweet much. He doesn’t need to. His track record speaks for itself: co-first author on AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and MuZero. The systems that showed the world what real leaps in AI look like. Now he’s warning that public discourse is once again failing to

The future of intelligence is a hybrid between historical knowledge and experience.

NY Times using an AI generated image (6 fingers on peace sign hand) to celebrate victory over BigAI. You can't make this stuff up. Or can you? 🧐

ChatGPT will need a Prime (free shipping) solution to win buyers from Amazon.

Too many AI papers with "academic affiliations" in it for clicks these days. Unis should be a little discerning of what they cosign. All the "Blame AI" and "Bad AI" reports are disappointing at so many levels.