The best investment right now might be the founder you'll never see pitch
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AI-redpilled: the test that separates talk from what's built
AI-redpilled gets claimed constantly and checked rarely. Here's the screen-share test a Laurel CPO uses to tell real AI use from talk, for people and teams.
I gave an AI the keys to merge my own code
Today I did something that would have sounded reckless to me a year ago. I gave an AI permission to merge my own code into my repositories without asking me first.
What my second child taught me about freedom
I used to think kids were the end of my freedom. Two of them in, I've found almost the exact opposite.
Declinism is a choice, and a self-fulfilling one. Abundance mentality as the rational, generative bet.
Stop telling me the world is ending. You don't know that. Neither do I.
500 agents at Edge Esmeralda — the missing layer is discovery and mediation
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Google launched AI checkout at scale. Your store is in the system. You still won't appear.
Google launched AI checkout at scale. Your store is in the system. You still won't appear. Here's the part nobody is explaining.
True Norma launch announcement
I set out to build a DTC store almost entirely with AI.
How AI Agents Reshape Business Relationships
Not all business relationships do the same job. Research shows which ones survive the agentic economy, and which were always just expensive due diligence.
The COO's Job Is Building the AI Operating System
The COO's job in an AI-first company is to build the operating system the company runs on. Here is what that OS looks like and how to build it.
Agents sort business relationships — not destroy them
Agents won't kill business relationships. They'll sort them. The ones doing low-value information work will quietly become unnecessary. The ones doing the hard human jobs will become rarer, and more valuable.
Five Things AI Can't Replace — and Why Combining Them Is the Real Moat
Five things AI can't replace: trust, context, distribution, taste, and liability. These aren't product categories. They're structural layers that become more valuable as AI gets better, not less.